Parents Denying Medical Treatment For Children

When Can Parents Deny Medical Care to Children - Lawinfo

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The parent is refusing to grant consent for the treatment; When the State Cannot Make Medical Decisions If any of the factors described above are not present, then states typically defer to parents regarding medical treatment for their minor child. Outside of these …

Children's Medical Treatment and Parents Beliefs - Healthline

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When Can a Parent Deny Medical Treatment for a Minor Child?

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If any of the criteria described above are not present in a given case then many states will defer to the parent’s decisions regarding medical treatment for the …

When parents refuse consent to treatment for children and

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One of the most difficult ethical dilemmas in paediatric practice is parental refusal to consent to life-saving treatment for their children. The ethical principles in such …

Medical Neglect of a Child | LegalMatch

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What is Medical Neglect of a Child? Medical neglect is defined as a parent’s failure to provide …

Overriding Parental Decision to Withhold …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/overriding-parental-decision-withhold-treatment/2003-08

7 Thus, the court concluded that (1) where the need for life-sustaining medical treatment is or becomes an emergency while a nonterminally ill child is under a …

Limiting Parents' Rights in Medical Decision …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/limiting-parents-rights-medical-decision-making/2006-10

The law’s inquiry into parental competence to provide medical care for a child does not stop at assessing their physical and mental ability to do so; it also examines their …

Parental refusals of medical treatment: the harm principle as

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Abstract. Minors are generally considered incompetent to provide legally binding decisions regarding their health care, and parents or guardians are empowered to make those …

Letting them die: parents refuse medical …

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/13/followers-of-christ-idaho-religious-sect-child-mortality-refusing-medical-help

But Mariah’s parents were fundamentalist Mormons who went off the grid in northern Idaho in the 1990s and refused to take their children to doctors, believing …

Parents - Ethics, conflict and medical …

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In Gillam’s analysis of parental discretion, she described the limits as set by the ‘harm threshold’: parents should not be able to make a decision “if the child is likely …