Is your right to privacy a stronger right than your child's right not to die at your hand or because of your neglect? Could you answer that question directly, please?
Do your "standards of tending them" include allowing them to die?
Allowing a child to die when she did not have to die is abuse and it is a crime. I am surprised that you seem to want to argue otherwise.
Having a dead child that didn't have to be dead isn't meeting even a minimal standard of tending them", it is?
This isn't a tough case. The child is dead. She is dead today rather than having her whole life ahead of her, when a trip to the doctor for some insulin would have easily prevented her death.
Where does it end?? Once we let the do-gooders, social workers and “Mrs Grundy’s” into our homes, we will NOT be able to get them out again.
There is no right to pray your child into the grave.
Where does this overriding right to abuse children at will without government interference stem from, in your opinion?
That depends. Define neglect. Is it neglect if I choose to not have my child immunized for whooping cough, but my child dies of whooping cough?? Its a simple procedure to immunize. but do I, as a parent have the right not get the immunization because of my fear of side effects??
And, if I do not immunize my children, and they die from a disease they could have had protection from, am I deficient, (in your world) of my standards for tending them??? Am I to be hounded by the PTB because I have “Allowed them to die” when all it would have taken has a simple little shot to prevent it??
If that is not a direct enough answer for you, then I'm sorry. But I do not see what the parents did as "neglect" By all accounts, they loved their child very much and did for all they felt was right to do.. Their error is in that they chose a treatment (i.e. prayer and a belief in divine healing) that was unsuccessful when other treatment methods were available. At what point do we take away the parental responsibility? Faith healing? Non-immunization? Herbal or homeopathic medicine? Perhaps allowing experimental or unproven procedures? At what point do we remove a parents right to chose?? Or do require that parents must be held to a standard that allows them to only be right? No error allowed?? Sorry, but the world is NOT a risk free place, and sometimes mistakes are made, and children suffer. (as do their parents.) I only wonder what has happened to the faith of the child's parents now. “””There is no right to pray your child into the grave.”””
If that is the parents choice of therapy, then yes it is, for they did NOT believe they were praying their child into the grave. Now, the question becomes, should the parents be punished for making the wrong choice of treatment??
“””Where does this overriding right to abuse children at will without government interference stem from, in your opinion?”””
This is abuse by your definition, not mine. Wrong-headed? Yes. Not effective? Yes. But abusive? No. In a free society, we are free to make the choices we feel are right and justified. And we are also expected to accept the consequences of those choices.
If we wish to be protected from having to face the results of our freely made choices, are we truly free?