If parents do not wish to pursue (guaranteed hypothetically) medical help to assist their child, is it right?

[Thanatos]

An interesting case of a sixteen-year old female who is for all intents and purposes a nine month old baby. Just watch up to about 3 minutes, for a good synopsis, and the dilemma that I'd like to talk about.

The parents have said that if there was a magic pill that would somehow hypothetically allow this girl to stop being stuck in a baby's form, they would reject it.

I'm honestly not exactly comfortable with their decision. It seems like if such a hypothetical cure existed, and they rejected it, aren't they keeping her in a perpetual (if blissfully ignorant, but still) developmental prison, merely for their own selfish desires?

Thoughts?

[Pious Agnost]

Just what the hell would happen when the parents inevitably pass away and it was stuck as a 6 month child since they turned down said magic pill.

Unbelievable, I just hope they hadn't considered that properly.

[teru bain vincint]

They are the parents, however if it's obvious that a medication can help a child and the parents have the means to administrate and afford it, I don't understand why they would refuse to do that honestly......you can help your child but you would refuse if given the chance but claim to care and love for them. Only reason I can think of them doing this is that they must believe that her condition is "fate" or a condition that was given for a reason and must remain that way

[Claudius Gothicus]

The State takes over, kicks them in the butt and starts giving the child the medication needed to make her grow up(it's too late now though)

[Tuor]

It seems that the parents took the stance that is normally taken in regard to a handicapped child. People never tell their handicapped children that they are "worse off" or however you want to phrase it. It seems like they just took this stance and think that if they say they are willing to change their daughter with a pill that it would mean they acknowledge that she is "worse off". Maybe they just don't want to acknowledge it out of a desire to see her as good in their eyes, but it's still troubling.