How incredibly naive and patronizing.
When a child goes off the derech, the first thing a parent usually says is “how am I going to show my face in shul now?”
Some people leave, especially when confronted with things like emperical data, historcal accuracy of the Torah, racially superior attitudes towards other people, or just being tired of holding 17th century shtetle life up as an ideal plane of existance.
It’s been a fact of life since the Torah was “given”