An agent cannot be morally culpable for a harm they are metaphysically incapable of causing or preventing, so parents bear no responsibility for a reprobation decreed before their action.

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Morally culpable(as used in ethics and law): Deserving of blame or responsibility for something wrong that you did or failed to do.
decreed(in theology and predestination): Officially ordered or decided by someone in authority. In this context, it suggests the condemnation was determined beforehand by a higher power.
metaphysically incapable(in metaphysics and possibility): Fundamentally impossible in the nature of reality itself—not just practically difficult, but literally cannot happen. For example, you're metaphysically incapable of making a square circle.
predestination(Augustine's theology of grace and election): God's decision 'before the constitution of the world,' in a non-temporal manner matching his eternal being, regarding who will be exempted from the damnation awaiting fallen humankind and who will not

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