Sunday, December 1, 2013

Research Part II

For faith healing, I've chosen to highlight the Federal Government's policy that providing religious exception to child abuse laws is a state-by-state decision since this topic lies at the intersection of Individual vs Community benefit, Indivual Freedom vs Individual welfare, and Tradition vs Government Intervention.  Here is childwelfare.gov's definition of child abuse and neglect with exceptions explained. One caveat that should be mentioned, however: Even when states grant religious exemptions, the court can still order medical treatment be administered, and parents have been convicted in these states when their children suffer fatal harm from the withholding of medical treatment. (Such as this case).

I'm also omitting the vaccines topic because it's apparently been alive and well since the 18th century and there are as many vaccine adversaries in the UK as the US. It's pretty hard to pin down geographically.

Here is the fully researched spreadsheet (save as to view).

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