1. Can You Deny Your Child Medical Care For Religious Reasons
The practitioner told the parents that the child was being healed, after 2 weeks he told the parents that he believed that the child may have had a broken bone. ... In the Swan case the parents left the church shortly after their son's death and formed a child advocacy group called CHILD ("Victims", 2000). ... However, a child who can not make there own decisions, or a child that is unconscious, can be treated against the parents request under a doctrine called "parens patriae" which says that the state will not allow a child's health to be seriously jeopardized because of the parent...
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