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Bad Medicine: Parents, the State, and the Charge of ‘Medical Child Abuse’

Maxine Eichner | June 30, 2017 | Children and the Law

Doctors and hospitals have begun to level a new charge — “medical child abuse” (MCA) — against parents who, they say, get unnecessary medical treatment for their kids. The fact that this treatment has been ordered by other doctors does not protect parents from these...

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