Policing the content of parental guidance given to children would be even more fun than policing the uploads to YouTube.
I'd say focus on making child protective services do the job it's already supposed to be doing, which is already one of the most difficult ones any one has thought up. -- rec -- On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Prof David West <[email protected]>wrote: > this is a complex (fidelity to the list topic) question - but there is > a lot of case law in the US dealing with exactly this issue - much of it > related to the Seventh Day Adventists. Some key points (that I did not see > addressed in the article) that would determine criminality would be the age > of the victim, was he able to give informed consent for his religious > treatment, and did the parents actively prevent him from seeking > traditional treatment. > > The real interesting question to me - what is the boundary between a > parents right to raise children in their faith and societies interest in > establishing a threshold set of shared values and practices for acceptance > into the society. > > If parents can successfully indoctrinate a child to the point that even > when he was of an age that would normally allow him to seek medical > assistance on his own, despite parental wishes, he held firm to "his" faith > and refused treatment - did they harm the child be establishing that kind > of mind set? > > davew > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012, at 06:59 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > Ok, all of you "faith" proponents: at what point does practicing "faith" > cross the line and become criminally negligent? > > Corollary question: at what point does adherence to religious faith > cross a moral boundary by allowing the practitioner to select comforting > dogma over moral obligation? > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205306/Russel-Brandi-Bellew-Faith-healer-parents-avoid-jail-Austin-Sprout-16-dies.html > > --Doug > PS: <complexity> (Added to keep this thread from being > completelyoff-topic.) > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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