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This should explicitly be allowed under the law. Right now parents can exempt their children from lifesaving vaccines. Kids should be allowed to override that.
by true_tuna 8y ago
This should explicitly be allowed under the law. Right now parents can exempt their children from lifesaving vaccines. Kids should be allowed to override that.
- loeg 8y agoMore broadly, kids should have some basic rights to self-determination well before 18. In the US, kids have astonishingly few rights.
- cannabis_sam 8y agoThis is the real age discrimination issue in society. Children get harmed with no recourse, while the adults responsible go free.
- mnm1 8y agoBasically parents are allowed to let their children die this way and this way only. If they let them starve or without shelter, cps comes. Seems like a strange exception in our laws to allow a parent's stupidity and idiocy to kill their child. It also seems so out of place in a society that is so obsessed with controlling children's every move 24/7/365 till they are adults and beyond.