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Which is fine - I'm all for people having and expressing their choice without interference. Do children really belong to parents or are they really pseudo-wards of the state where the state can intercede because (using an extreme example) that the child is not eating enough leafy greens, therefore the child is removed from the home, made a ward of the state and fed spinach salad?
I understand drawing that mythical line is difficult, but it's easy to go to the other extreme - should the state be able to intercede if a child is being raised in a house where they're cooking meth and poisoning the child on a daily basis? Of course.
Bottom line is we'd all come to a case where the choice is difficult, but here we disagree on the line, but as far as I can tell not about whether there is one, or that there are cases where the state CAN/SHOULD intercede.