Minors Can Refuse Mental Health Treatment In Some U.S. States | NBC Nightly News
NBC News called all 50 states and discovered about 40 percent of them give minors the power to consent to treatment – sometimes as young as 12. Designed in the 1970s to protect young people, the law sometimes turns out to have the opposite effect.
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Minors Can Refuse Mental Health Treatment In Some U.S. States | NBC Nightly News
7 Comments
bull, you failed, should of never put him in a hospital, snake oil suporters
I'm so glad I live in the Netherlands. Over here, kids from age 12 can officially ask and be granted euthanasia., without their parents consent.
You're not a slave if your a minor. In our country you have RIGHTS
I just think it's insane that there are somebody places in the world that do not give children any disorder consent to their own bodies until they are a certain age. The idea that you are helpless in your own medical say so until you are certain age is just insane. If I had had my own consent to my medical choices as a child I would not have gotten traumatized over and over from the lack of consent I was given to painful and uncomfortable procedures. And now I'm in therapy for medical trauma and I have not seen it doctor in over 10 years because of the fact that even though I haven't said now. I didn't before and it is an outrage to me that people are still okay with this
Best to stay away from doctors and psychologists. Nothing kills like the medical profession!!
Sometimes it’s the parents who are crazy
The doctors and nurses will destroy that kid completely into brain washing with narcissism if ur a doctor and read this satan is waiting for u
don't live in states that crimizelize mental illness