Parents Right To Make Medical Decisions

Pediatric decision-making: Help parents protect, …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/pediatric-decision-making-help-parents-protect-empower-kids

In Opinion 2.2.1, “ Pediatric Decision-Making ,” the Code explains: As the persons best positioned to understand their child’s unique needs and interests, parents (or guardians) are asked to fill the dual responsibility of protecting their children and, at the …

Parental Decision Making | UW Department of Bioethics

https://depts.washington.edu/bhdept/ethics-medicine/bioethics-topics/detail/72

Who has the authority to make decisions for children? Parents have the responsibility and authority to make medical decisions on behalf of their children. This includes the right to refuse or discontinue treatments, even …

Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions - Fundamentals …

https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/fundamentals/legal-and-ethical-issues/capacity-to-make-health-care-decisions

The law recognizes that adults—in most states, people age 18 and older—have the right to manage their own affairs and conduct personal business, …

Limiting Parents' Rights in Medical Decision Making

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

Parental Rights in Medical Settings - Parental Rights

https://parentalrights.org/understand_the_issue/current-state-parental-rights/medical/

An Erosion of a Parent's Rights to Make Medical Decisions - As wonderful as modern medicine is and as helpful as most doctors are, they are not perfect. Sadly, …

Who Makes Medical Decisions for a Child After Divorce?

https://www.divorcenet.com/resources/medical-decisions-for-children-after-divorce.html

When one parent has sole legal custody, that parent can decide how to handle any medical decisions for the child without asking the other parent (or the court) for …

Parental rights and medical decisions - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19650841/

The arguments considered include those flowing from ideas that parents are motivated by their child's best interests; that they have privileged insight into their child's preferences …

Parents - Ethics, conflict and medical treatment for …

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

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 to suffer significant harm from the …

The Supreme Court's Parental Rights Doctrine

https://parentalrights.org/understand_the_issue/supreme-court/

Prior to 2000, the Supreme Court followed the doctrine that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children. Parents were assumed to be the best caretakers for their child unless …

Parents with Adult Children: Critical Legal Documents

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/three-critical-legal-documents-every-parent-should-get-place-now-to-safeguard-their

As a best practice, it’s prudent to name multiple agents in priority order with single authority; for example, the adult child’s mother might be listed first as the medical agent; if the mother...