Alright, I'm getting pretty tired of "defending" the community, since I'm on the periphery of it at best and it generally irritates the shit out of me, nor do I really care if any of you like it or not (see first post), so this is the last thing I'll say on the subject (again) - it isn't simply a sexual fetish.
Perhaps you're all right in that it's off base to call your kids furries as well; they are just playing along and aren't necessarily into it, but that doesn't mean they're being included in something that's purely sexual in nature - furries are simply ppl who like to imagine themselves as animal ppl, that's it. Sure, there's some fucking going on, but saying that it's horribly wrong to let your kids play along with it is like saying it's horribly wrong to ever fuck as a parent while raising your kid(s). It's waaaaay off the mark.