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Faith|Based Medical Neglect


Faith-Based Medical Neglect: for Providers and Policymakers - PMC

This article discusses public policy and case law on faith-based medical neglect, beliefs against medical care in several denominations, and advice for ...

Letting them die: parents refuse medical help for children in the ...

... medical neglect. In Mariah's ... Idaho is one of only six states that offer a faith-based shield for felony crimes such as manslaughter.

Faith-Based Decisions: Parents Who Refuse Appropriate Care for ...

This case involves parental refusal/postponement of medically needed therapy based on a religious belief in miracles. The postponement resulted ...

Faith-Based Medical Neglect: for Providers and Policymakers

A substantial minority of Americans have religious beliefs against one or more medical treatments. Some groups promote exclusive reliance on ...

Law and Medicine: Pediatric Faith Healing - AMA Journal of Ethics

Child-neglect laws vary by state, but in general require parents to provide children with food, shelter, and necessary medical care [2, 3]. Still, certain ...

Most states' child abuse and neglect laws have religious exemptions

Child abuse statutes in 34 states, D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico allow an exception if medical treatment for a child conflicts with parents' ...

“Pointless and Preventable”: An Overview of Religion-Based ...

This chapter provides an overview of religion-based medical neglect of children, in which devout parents forego providing adequate medical care to their ailing ...

Faith healing has deadly consequences for children - Secular AZ

Religious parents also get an exception under Arizona's criminal medical neglect statute. While there is no religious exemption to criminal ...

Religious Exemptions to Medical Care Children - Child USA

The most known injuries to children because of faith-based medical neglect have occurred in Idaho. The webpage idahochildren.org lists 182 Idaho children ...

Religion-related medical neglect - Childrens Health Care

Faith-based medical neglect ... Foreword: Do Parents Have a Religious Right to Abuse or Neglect Children? CHILD Inc. reports on and opposes religion-based child ...

Group 1 - Law & Morality 3600:327 - LibGuides at University of Akron

Because religious exemptions to child abuse and neglect laws do not equally protect all children and may harm some children by causing confusion ...

The Role of Government in Cases of Faith Based Child Medical ...

In this paper, I examine one extreme example of parental rights gone wrong: faith based child medical neglect, a phenomenon that occurs when ...

Victims of religion-based medical neglect

We would like to share with you just a very few of the stories of children who have died because of religion-based medical neglect.

Early Religion-Based Medical-Neglect Cases in the United States ...

This chapter reviews relevant American religion-based medical-neglect cases from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when cases relating to faith healing ...

"The role of government in cases of faith based child medical ...

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 ...

The Death of Children by Faith-Based Medical Neglect - jstor

Faith-based medical neglect is permitted or facilitated by r exemption clauses that appear in many state statutes and regulations, which ...

(PDF) Religious Exemptions in Cases of Child Medical Neglect

I will argue that in the case of minor children, the use of faith-based healing in lieu of medical treatment is a form of child abuse and neglect.

Child Fatalities From Religion-motivated Medical Neglect | Pediatrics

Conclusions. When faith healing is used to the exclusion of medical treatment, the number of preventable child fatalities and the associated ...

How faith-healing exemptions have survived in Washington and Idaho

Soon after, religious exemptions for medical neglect became much more common. In 1974, Richard Nixon signed the Child Abuse Prevention and ...

The Death of Children by Faith-Based Medical Neglect

The Death of Children by Faith-Based Medical Neglect - Volume 20 Issue 1.