Exactly right. I am usually for parents raising kids as they see fit, but this seems to be completely out of the realm of what any normal person would think is healthy child rearing. You just cannot take people and experiment with them and see if they turn out ok.
this is right in there with botox for babies.
remembering college psychology, there was some shrink that put their child in a sterile cube with the absolute minimum of human needs with no outside inflence.
net result?
nobody knows, the rumor was the child ended up with serious issues. no social or coping skills.