CHYS 3P99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mature Minor Doctrine, Child Protection, Genderqueer
15 May 2018
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Week 4: Families and children’s participation in broader contexts
Ashley Smith (1988-2007)
- Someone who had a bit of nuisance trouble and when she was 15 she was on
probation for throwing crab apples at a post office worker
- She was sent to a youth center for a month however she kept doing things
that would get her in trouble
- Whenever she got in trouble there would be an extension of their time which
ended her up in there for 2 years
o She was segregated 24 times
- She asked if she could be transferred to an adult intuition
- Whenever she got in trouble shed get in trouble, start yelling etc.
o How she managed her anger
o Eventually she took her life
- During all this time, she kept writing letter of those who were taking care of
her
o Ex. Wanting a larger size of underwear
Themes for today
-On-going consideration of participation/protection tension
-Young people and participation in issue-based institutional contexts
-Intersections of childhood and disability
-Intersections of childhood and at risk
-Families advocating with children
Remaining slide from last week, linked to participation/protection:
Liden, (ilde and (ilde Rusten. 2007. Asylum, Participation and the Best
)nterests of the Child: New Lessons from Norway Children and Society, 21(4):
273-283.
-Issue/question
- parent’s night not know exactly what’s going on in the child’s life
- Ex. Kidnapping or arranged marriage
-Method
- they focused on interviews
-Example
-Children’s experiences
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-Participation vs best interests (and protection)
- allows children to give their side of the story
Context: children and medical decision-making
-Mature minor doctrine
- the doctor decides whether the person has the capacity to consent
- Determine based on the medical procedure
- The consequences to consent
-16
- over 16 you will have that capacity
- Younger 16 you don’t have that capacity
-Determining capacity
-Seriousness
-Parent-child disagreements
Debate 2:
Children should have a significant say in medical decisions about their bodies
Dominant discourses of childhood
- Child innocence
o Keep the knowledge away from the child
o Parents avoid giving the child certain information
- Child protection
o Certain kind of things can happen to children
- Child becoming
- Child as emotional and irrational
o Guide them
o Make sure they’re skilled
o Protect them from their future
- Child as incompetent
o The child isn’t an incompetent
- Needing adult authority
o For the protection of their child
o Should be do what they’re told
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Document Summary
Week 4: families and children"s participation in broader contexts. Someone who had a bit of nuisance trouble and when she was 15 she was on probation for throwing crab apples at a post office worker. She was sent to a youth center for a month however she kept doing things that would get her in trouble. Whenever she got in trouble there would be an extension of their time which ended her up in there for 2 years: she was segregated 24 times. She asked if she could be transferred to an adult intuition. Whenever she got in trouble shed get in trouble, start yelling etc: how she managed her anger, eventually she took her life. During all this time, she kept writing letter of those who were taking care of her: ex. Young people and participation in issue-based institutional contexts. Remaining slide from last week, linked to participation/protection: Liden, (ilde and (ilde rusten. (cid:523)2007(cid:524). (cid:498)asylum, participation and the best.
