Author Topic: A shocking story!  (Read 1121 times)

floo

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A shocking story!
« on: April 22, 2016, 08:32:00 AM »
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/21/idaho-woman-blames-parents-for-health-woes-seeks-change-in-law-protecting-faith-healers.html?intcmp=hpbt3

A woman is suing her parents for not permitting her to have surgery as a baby for a heart defect. They belong to a weird religious sect who believe in prayer not medical treatment. >:(

Parents like that should have their kids removed as they are abusive and putting their children's lives in danger.

Harrowby Hall

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Re: A shocking story!
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2016, 09:03:07 AM »
Well, for starters, this is a grown woman who is complaining about things which didn't happen 20 years ago, and it combines the two most defining idiosyncrasies of the USA for an outsider: religion and litigation.

And it was from Fox News!

Perhaps we should establish that parents do not own their children but act in stewardship in their best interests. Perhaps the best interests of children could be identified in objective terms where health, well being and education are concerned and parents held to account. Among the conditions should be that until the child is old enough to be able to provide informed consent parents may not oppose appropriate clinical intervention on religious or cultural grounds.



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