getResources still showing child resources when parent is unpublished - I know why but is there a workaround?

Can getResources to skip children when the parent is unpublished without having to unpublish every single child resource?

I think because of how I am calling getResources it is disregarding the parent completely as I need to access content 2 levels down. So I wonder if my logic is flawed to achieve this.

I am using getResources and getPage to output content from my entire site tree (essentially a product catalogue).

My resources looks like this:

Parent
Child (Published)
Content I want
Content I want
Child (Unpublished)
This is published, but I don't want it output
Parent 2 (Published)
Child (Published)
Content I want
Content I want
..

GetResources is retrieving my records but it is ignoring the published status of the child's parent. Each parent has quite a lot of content, so I really don't want to "unpublish" each child.

My snippet call is:

[[!getPage?
&elementClass=`modSnippet`
&element=`getResources`
&parents=`2,3,4,5` // the master "categories"
&depth=`2` // I don't want the direct children, I want the children's children
&limit=`12`
&pageVarKey=`page`
&includeTVs=`1`
&includeContent=`0`
&tpl=`MyTPL`
]]

Hope this makes sense. Thanks.

Do the children that you want have a template in common? If so, perhaps you could use a "where" property to only get the ones with that template?