seaangelrainqueen's Blog

This is a very good question. Like you said, I had mentioned before about my daughter and her taking some classes at a community college. She is only 17. She had to sign a paper giving them permission to contact us if there were any problems with her grades or behavior at the college. If she did not sign, which she did without hesitation, they would not contact us about anything and we would get no information if we contacted them. I recently took my 14 year old son to get a Tet. shot. When my kids were little, our insurance did not cover immunizations, so we went to the health department for those. Even though our insurance covers immunizations now, I just took him back there because it was only 1 shot and they had all his shot records. When I called to make the appointment, the lady asked why my son could not call and make the appointment himself. I told her he was only 14. He can't even drive himself, but she wanted him to make the appointment. Then before he got his shot, they had him sign for it, not me! Again, he is only 14. That will be our last visit there. Now that insurance pays for shots, there is no need for us to go there anyway. The doctor's offices don't seem to have this procedure. The parent seems to still be in charge, atleast where we go. It seems to have something to do with government owned places. They obviously are not ready to inform us that we are losing our parental rights early. This definitely needs to be investigated!

IMO it is one more small step in the direction of socialism. One more of our rights being softened or lessened so that government and not us makes the calls on what can and cannot happen.

I admit I am as guilty of the next of not speaking against things like this when the occur so I cannot run my mouth too much, but I am against any proceedure/law/? the takes choices away and places them in the hands of government agencys.

I guess they can wait until or kids are old enough to get a good job to get paid for their services too!

You are right HSM, everything seems to be "money, money, money, money...".

And, may I add again, if a person who is "under the age of 18" cannot enter into a contractual agreement, then how is the "consent form" signed by them "legal" in the eyes of the law, or a court, in itself?

You've got that right, goharvick! My point is this, I remember the young girl that was on Fox8 news a good while back, that her mother was "sent to jail" for 30 days, because her daughter wasn't keeping the "school/state attendance policy" and the girl's reason was that people at school made her life "miserable" by calling her "fat". When they showed the report, the young lady was in tears, saying that she would go back to school, and put up with the abuse, if they would just let her mother come home. So, that means that mother was "responsible for her daughter's actions", and was sent to jail for them. Now, we encounter places all the time that tell us, as parents, that "we have nothing to do with our child", when it comes to "their" policy. Okay, I say someone needs to "pony up" and decide, are we responsible for our children until they are 18, or not. These "cases" of "in-between" don't cut it with me, either I am, or I'm not responsible for them. As I may have said earlier, "we" are held responsible if they do something wrong, yet we are not responsible about a "medical procedure" or "things that happen at school"? Someone needs to make up their mind, quit "straddling the fence", and make it either ALL ONE WAY or ALL THE OTHER WAY, no in-betweens to get confused by.