Thursday, July 14, 2011

Can parents face criminal charges for treating children with alternative medicine?

Say a little kid is diagnosed with leukemia. His doctor recommends a conventional treatment plan and the parents reject it in favor of homeopathy, which has not been shown to be an effective treatment for anything. Since it's basically the same as not giving the kid any treatment at all, could the parents be charged with negligence? Or if he ends up dying, manslaughter?

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