What's "quickest and easiest?": parental decision making about school trip mode

What's "quickest and easiest?": parental decision making about school trip mode

BACKGROUND The potential benefits of active school travel (AST) are widely recognized, yet there is consistent evidence of a systematic decline in the use of active modes of transportation to school since the middle part of the 20th century. This study explored parental accounts of the school travel mode choice decision-making process. METHODS Thirty-seven parents of children (17 who walked; ...

Genetic decision-making: parental responsibility.

Making good Decisions about Decision Making

Can you see that justice is supposed to be blind? Abstract Decision aids are becoming more popular and more accessible thanks to the internet and hand held computers. The question remains, however, if decision aids can be used beyond just aiding the human decision process. Can we use computers to make decisions without loosing out on some of the aspects of decision making that are important to ...

Parental role in decision making about pediatric cardiac transplantation: familial and ethical considerations.

Parents of children with complex or terminal heart conditions often face agonizing decisions about cardiac transplantation. There are differences in the level of involvement that parents prefer when making such decisions. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe parents' preferences for their roles in decisions related to cardiac transplantation. A prospective ethnographic method ...

Harm is all you need? Best interests and disputes about parental decision-making.

A growing number of bioethics papers endorse the harm threshold when judging whether to override parental decisions. Among other claims, these papers argue that the harm threshold is easily understood by lay and professional audiences and correctly conforms to societal expectations of parents in regard to their children. English law contains a harm threshold which mediates the use of the best i...