Here's my opinion.

We know that celiac or gluten intolerance does something nasty, whether or not you've got actual celiac disease. It opens the tight junctions in the intestines and lets stuff out where it can wreak autoimmune problems. Dr. Fine and Fasano report about 30% of all people have this happening to them in the presence of gluten in their diet. The longer it goes on, the more likely you are to develop some sort of autoimmune disease, like diabetes, thyroiditis, or rheumatoid arthritis. So whether or not you end up with classic celiac, you may very well end up with something else.

The message I take away from this is that gluten is really not something anyone should eat until we can figure out how to tell if it is opening those TJ's in an individual. It probably isn't going to kill most of us, at least not directly, but it can sure make your life miserable.

Now lets say after your kids leave the home they decide to eat gluten. At least they'll not have had the prior X years of gluten exposure. Every decade you're exposed to it increases your chances of getting an autoimmune disease by some percentage. So you'll have at least given them a reprieve from the ticking clock at least for awhile.

But the fact that you have celiacs in your family means that they're probably part of the population that reacts to gluten.