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Originally Posted by strawflower
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The law presumes parents "act in their child's best interests".
The older I get the more I'm realizing that this is often not true. I have viewed many divorce cases from a distance and what I repeatedly observe is that many, perhaps a majority of parents, treat their children primarily as pawns to achieve their own ends. There are exceptions and many parents do do the right thing even when conflicted with the many emotions that are present in a divorce case. But, it seems to me to be the minority that really do.
I have seen all of the following:
1. Parents who fight for child support and than use it primarily for their own needs when it is awarded.
2. Parents who put off taking their sick child to a doctor because they don't want to make the co-payment that their health insurance requires.
3. Parents who refuse to intervene when their child is being bullied or even abused because they "don't want to make waves" or feel "it will help the child build character".
4. Parents who deny visitation to an ex-spouse not because of a real issue, but because they want to drive the ex-spouse out of their life and out of the life of their child.
This is just the latest variation of it: Refuse to properly educate yourself about the effectiveness of a vaccine and than refuse to give consent for your child to take it.
I am not yet ready to hand this decision process over to the state. However, I am not impressed with what I see from many parents and--at some point--the child and the rest of us in society have some rights too. While parental rights may be important, they are not absolute.
I personally think vaccination laws that have an "out" based on nothing more than "personal feelings" ought to be repealed.
I think a parent that acts like this ought to be ostracized by those around him/her until they get the message.
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