For God's Sake

A worldwide alert has been put out for a missing 13 year old boy who is badly in need of chemotherapy, and is believed to have been kidnapped by his mother. He suffers from a treatable case of cancer, however without the court ordered chemotherapy he could die. The survival rate is 85 to 90 percent with chemo, but because of religious reasons, the mother is believed to have run off with him. The boy's estranged father was interviewed by authorities but seemed vague about his son's whereabouts. He did finally say that he believed that they were probably no longer in the country, and ruled out Canada as a possible location. Police now think that the father's vagueness may have been a stalling tactic to allow his family to flee the country. Now looking at this from the point of view of a total stranger, it is extremely difficult for me to understand how people could endanger their children based on religious beliefs. Perhaps it's because I refuse to believe God would allow this, or that it would even be expected of us. Where are the parental instincts? One can only conclude that these people are failures at parenthood.