In the United States, parental rights have been defined by a strong liberal conception of individual rights, giving parents huge leeway in determining how their children are raised. In this paper, I examine one extreme example of parental rights gone wrong: faith based child medical neglect, a phenomenon that occurs when parents turn to faith healing for their children instead of standard medical care, resulting in the child’s death. First, I show how liberal theory has failed to address key questions regarding the limits of both parental and child rights as they apply to faith healing. Then I apply the republican concepts of civic virtue and non-arbitrary intervention to provide a framework that clearly lays out the limitations on both chi...
Florida\u27s religious accommodation statute leads some parents to believe that they are free to rel...
ABSTRACT. Over the past three decades more than 200 children have died in the U.S. of treatable illn...
Do the actions of parents in withholding medical treatment from their children due to religious infl...
In the United States, parental rights have been defined by a strong liberal conception of individual...
This Article argues that statutory exemptions in child abuse and neglect laws that exclude from thei...
In June 1997 a sixteen-year-old girl named Shannon Nixon began to feel ill. Her parents belonged to ...
Religious healing parents have vexed state courts for almost a century. Religious healing is the bel...
The story of children who die because their parents, in observance of their own religious principles...
Ethical considerations in medicine date as far back to 1847. The Code of Medical Ethics is used to p...
In order to analyze the religious exemptions, this paper will begin with their history. Part II look...
This Article asks why any state would have religious exemptions that promote the religious practice ...
This comment examines the historically uncertain balance between an individual\u27s right to freely ...
Many States exempt religious parents from prosecution, or limit their exposure to criminal liability...
This Response to Professors Levin, Jacobs, and Arora’s article To Accommodate or Not to Accommodate:...
Criminal liability of parents who treat their children\u27s illnesses through spiritual means or pra...
Florida\u27s religious accommodation statute leads some parents to believe that they are free to rel...
ABSTRACT. Over the past three decades more than 200 children have died in the U.S. of treatable illn...
Do the actions of parents in withholding medical treatment from their children due to religious infl...
In the United States, parental rights have been defined by a strong liberal conception of individual...
This Article argues that statutory exemptions in child abuse and neglect laws that exclude from thei...
In June 1997 a sixteen-year-old girl named Shannon Nixon began to feel ill. Her parents belonged to ...
Religious healing parents have vexed state courts for almost a century. Religious healing is the bel...
The story of children who die because their parents, in observance of their own religious principles...
Ethical considerations in medicine date as far back to 1847. The Code of Medical Ethics is used to p...
In order to analyze the religious exemptions, this paper will begin with their history. Part II look...
This Article asks why any state would have religious exemptions that promote the religious practice ...
This comment examines the historically uncertain balance between an individual\u27s right to freely ...
Many States exempt religious parents from prosecution, or limit their exposure to criminal liability...
This Response to Professors Levin, Jacobs, and Arora’s article To Accommodate or Not to Accommodate:...
Criminal liability of parents who treat their children\u27s illnesses through spiritual means or pra...
Florida\u27s religious accommodation statute leads some parents to believe that they are free to rel...
ABSTRACT. Over the past three decades more than 200 children have died in the U.S. of treatable illn...
Do the actions of parents in withholding medical treatment from their children due to religious infl...