Parents Refuse Medical Treatment For Children Because Of Religion

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

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15614259/

When parents apply religious or cultural beliefs concerning spiritual healing, faith healing, or preference for prayer over traditional health care for children, concerns develop. Medical care is considered one of the most basic of all human needs, and yet parents may elect …

Conflicts Between Religious or Spiritual Beliefs and Pediatric Care ...

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/132/5/962/31761/Conflicts-Between-Religious-or-Spiritual-Beliefs

The HHS revised its position, taking a neutral stance, when the act was reauthorized in 1983: “Nothing in this part should be construed as requiring or prohibiting …

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 …

Children's Medical Treatment and Parents Beliefs - Healthline

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/parents-beliefs-about-medicine-child-abuse

When Can Parents Deny Medical Care to Children - Lawinfo

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Adults have the right to refuse their own medical care for religious or personal reasons. However, this legal right to refuse medical care does not extend to their children if it …

Michigan Child's Death Puts Spotlight On …

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/31/643407967/michigan-childs-death-puts-spotlight-on-clash-between-medicine-and-religion

In 2016, a state government task force concluded that five children in Idaho died three years earlier because their parents did not seek medical treatment …

Most states' child abuse and neglect laws …

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/12/most-states-allow-religious-exemptions-from-child-abuse-and-neglect-laws/

But when the patient is a minor and still legally under the care of parents or guardians, the issue can quickly become fraught with competing claims, from child …

Refusal of Medical Treatment on Religious Grounds

https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS99/rpt/olr/htm/99-R-0180.htm

Generally, courts have authorized medical care for children who require immediate life-saving treatment. When parents decline to permit treatment on the …

Parents - Ethics, conflict and medical …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537980/

If parents refuse antibiotics because they know that their child has previously had a serious allergic reaction to those same antibiotics – it would …

Victims of religion-based medical neglect

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Religious exemption laws add to the confusion because they are used by certain churches as evidence that the state endorses the withholding of medical care on religious …