Okay, I suppose you've covered it off with the amendment, where the best interests of the child are. But you wouldn't want to have a scenario where the adults and the judge said okay, little one, go and watch your father die. I realize that's not what you envisaged.
I'm nitpicking the wording here and trying to figure out what the Department of Justice will have to say about this wording as it would be applied to thousands or hundreds of cases across the country over a period of time. I wonder if other medical conditions would not.... You have referred to terminally ill or “critical”, but there are actually a number of other conditions pertaining to people who are in hospital, who might be pretty badly off, but who wouldn't be terminally or critically ill. I can think of the term “guarded”; I've seen that used. I don't know whether it has a medical application or not.
Here I'm inviting your comment—