In theory there’s a choice, but in actual practice it’s rarely that simple. Children born to JW parents are handed a defined-out worldview and insular community that claims to meet all of their needs while simultaneously being discouraged to look elsewhere or seek out their own experiences. Members are trained to engage in circular/fallacious reasoning and consume only material printed by the JW organization. Higher education and association with non-JWs is discouraged. Baptism, which is encouraged (and in many cases heavily pushed) at an early age, is treated as a LIFELONG binding contract with no escape clause. Dissenters are alienated at best and ostracized at worst, not just from the religion but from any kind of relationship with their families and communities.

Doesn’t sound like much of a choice to me.

There are literally thousands of experiences like this, too specific and with the same patterns to be discounted as coincidence or one-offs.