——The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position-——
I think I nailed it....
99.9 % of families decisions are not a matter of life or death....
Never said they were.So can we assume that you and your wife,to use a non-life & death example,would decide to spend a week in the Caribbean,alone,in spite of your 4 year old's needing serious TLC after having had successful hip surgery? No life and death involved...just a frightened kid who's simply too young to understand that everything will be fine in just a few days/weeks.