| Citizen Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Zielona Gora, Poland Gender:  Posts: 135 Country:  Level up: 54%, 46 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by Catus Felidae  Sorry it upsets you gary, but the fact remains, that LEGALLY, when the question arises regarding whether to continue treatment or allow the child to die, THAT decision rests solely with the custodial parent. | Do I understand this right? If my wife and I divorced and I had custody, I could refuse medical treatment thereby allowing my child to die, and my ex-wife, as the child's mother, would have absolutely no legal rights whatsoever? And you think this is a good thing?
That's one sick, twisted system where one parent can let a child die and the second has no legal rights just because they are divorced. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. Liebling
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi |