Who Determines Children's Best Interests?

Who Determines Children's Best Interests?

Who decides the "best interests" of the child?

B was a frail 15-year-old girl who was brought to the hospital by the police. She had met a 22-year-old boy on a social networking site a few months earlier. They had fallen in love and she had started living with him. On finding his daughter missing, B's father reported the matter to the police station. The police caught the couple and brought them to the police station. The boy was arrested. ...

Beyond Best Interests

I. The Problem with Best Interests: A Framework; a Justificatory Idiom; and a Problem ................................. 1192 A. Framework: The Three Dimensions of State Interventions Aimed at Influencing Reproduction .............................................................. 1192 B. Justificatory Idiom: Best Interests of the Resulting Child Justifications, Their Attraction and Prominence .....

Treatment in patients’ best interests

A note on the current state of the law as regards balancing the autonomy, and personal values, of a mentally incapacitated patient against treatment plans with which they do not agree. The author summarises the outcomes of two medical treatment cases heard by the Court of Protection, with similar facts and different results, by way of adding to the advice to practitioners for their communicatio...

Do physicians recognize their own best interests?