It's possible - and lets be realistic, anyone willing to go into space is willing to take a very large risk. I'd wager our crew could be considered more brave - or foolish - than ourselves. But these are different weights and measures.

Did the ability to survive into the next winter turn us into monsters? It's possible -- depending on what one defines a monster as. All in all the word ends up rather subjective really when it's not being applied to a mythical or imagined being that a single group assigns ass a definition to a single (or multiple) beings or creatures.

At the end of the day, this will boil down into an argument based on each person's upbringing as to whether it is right or wrong, how their individual nations treat capsuleers, etcetera - but the truth of it is unless you plan to retire from space or live as a distant parent or place the child in a creche until such children reach adulthood, it will be dangerous. Of course, it is a danger any one can be willing to take based on circumstances. "Risktaking" is actually a very broad field. If we lived with eternal fear of the unknown every day we'd fear to open our eyes for what nightmares could be in front of us.

Regardless of what any of us think as individuals, in the OP's case, it is a decision they need to make based on the truths around them. I doubt any pirate pilot will acknowledge and cease to fire on a vessel sporting a 'baby on board' glyph like you see on some ground transports across the cluster.

I may have come off as a bit more grim than I usually am, but I am a firm believer that a child's feet should be either on the ground or on a station deck.