Letting Baby Cry During the Night

I have been reading and answering questions on Yahoo Answers for a few months and one repeated question is, "Do I let my baby cry during the night."  The answer is NO!!!!!!  I can't believe parents that consider themselves loving and caring would deprive their child food and water.  That is just something that really makes me want to shake the parents so hard they need to go to the ER.  How can someone say they love their baby and at the same time deny food and water daily or nightly?  What's next, put a lock on the refrigerator and turn off the water so they can't eat or drink when they get older?  Force the children to eat just 3 meals a day and that's it?  How many of these so called loving parents have literally held their baby while they cry for food or drink and not be able to provide it?  The problem is these parents can provide it, but because it's inconvenient they choose not too.  They would rather let their child starve and suffer just because their needs come before an infant that cannot do it themselves.  They treat their babies worse than their pets and it really pisses me off.  I really think that any parent that deprives their child of food and drink should be punished for child neglect. 

I will write more on this because it pisses me off so much.  I just can't believe child abuse is allowed to happen legally just so the parents are not inconvenienced.