Parents Refuse Medical Care For Children

When Can Parents Deny Medical Care to Children - Lawinfo

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When parents refuse necessary or life-saving care for their child, they could face serious legal consequences as well. States often refer to this as medical neglect and have laws against it. Loss of Custody The state may find that the parent is neglecting the child and …

Children's Medical Treatment and Parents Beliefs - Healthline

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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A parent who denies his or her child necessary medical care could face the following consequences: · Loss of custody. The state may find that the parent is neglecting the …

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 …

Ethical Issues Raised When Parents Refuse Medical Treatment …

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Parents refused to provide medical care for their children based on their religious beliefs. Minors were found to be neglected, when the parents declined the possibility of medical …

Parents' refusal of medical treatment based on religious and/or ...

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Parents' refusal of medical treatment based on religious and/or cultural beliefs: the law, ethical principles, and clinical implications. When parents apply religious or cultural …

Pa. Parents Refused Medical Care for Sick …

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Pennsylvania parents who said their 2-year-old daughter’s death was “God’s will” were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter on Friday after refusing to seek …