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> Parents have claimed religious exceptions Yes, and these are often allowed. However, there are guardrails. Hospitals have multidisciplinary teams of lawyers,
by epgui 4y ago
> Parents have claimed religious exceptions
Yes, and these are often allowed. However, there are guardrails. Hospitals have multidisciplinary teams of lawyers, ethicists, psychologists and religious counsellors to ensure that these are legitimate beliefs and that risks are within certain boundaries.
You can't exactly apply the same care to the internet at large.
- ok123456 4y agoMost of that boils down to very politely asking the parents to follow the recommended standard of care. Unless there's outright abuse, like broken bones without a satisfactory explanation, there's no real intervention. You want to take a guess at how often an old order Amish child goes to the pediatrician?
- epgui 4y agoI would guess not very often! But as with anything, you have to think about how things scale. The Amish are a small fraction of the population, and there's no imminent danger that suddenly everyone will take up the behaviour and stop taking their children to the paediatrician. Amish videos aren't "trending" on TikTok. :) If ever there was, or if that happened, then we might have a crisis on our hands, and we might be talking about doing something about it. None of this happens in a vacuum, nor should it be considered as if it did.