Like I said, we have no information about emancipation (and can't get it). What I need to know is whether a married 17 year old is considered emancipated. Marie
your On Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:48:07 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: IRB question > >Good question :-) !! > >Has she been emancipated, i.e., legally designated as an adult? > >That's the question we'd have to ask in Maine -- I don't know if being married >in PA defaults one to a status of being an adult... > >cjb > >********************* >Colleen J. Burnham >Information Resource Specialist >Thomas College >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.thomas.edu/library/burnhamc >207.859.1256 >***************************** >Quoting Marie Helweg-Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I'm supervising a student doing her honors research this semester. She >> is collecting data among women in a domestic violence shelter. The >> questionnaires are anonymous so we only have the information that we >> collected (no way to go back and gather more information). Now to my >> question. One of the participants is 17 years old and married. Is a >> married person an adult and therefore does not need permission from >> his/her parents to be a research participant? That is, can she give her >> own consent to participate? >> Marie >> >> -- >> ********************************************* >> Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor of Psychology >> Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773 >> Carlisle, PA 17013 >> Office: (717) 245-1562, Fax: (717) 245-1971 >> Webpage: www.dickinson.edu/~helwegm >> ********************************************* >> >> >> --- >> You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************* Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013 ************************************* --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
