Apple never said that it was scrapped. They did, however say that they intend to do it.

EDIT:

Follow the links from those articles. Apple never killed the plan! This is what Apple actually said:

> Based on feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers and others, we have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.

That's not killed. That's just delayed. It's also them reiterating their intention to ship these misfeatures. It was, as pointed out, widely misreported.

Apple is very good at writing technically truthful things that say one thing that cause reporters to report a different thing (which is not factual). This becomes an "everybody knows" sort of thing where the narrative that is widely believed/accepted is not what Apple actually said. They exploit poor reading comprehension ability.