Reply #2: Your wife is correct, to a point

[Warpy]

We get to choose stupid things for ourselves, from smoking tobacco through denying the medical treatment that would save our lives in favor of silly things that won't. What we don't get to do is decide that for our children when they become ill with a life threatening disease.

Here in the US, numerous court cases have determined that children aren't our property and that the state has a vested interest in seeing that they grow up.

The only real problem is locating those children before their parents kill them with their wacky beliefs. Too often, it only happens once the kids die.