Why families matter
- PMID: 25274881
- DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-1394E
Why families matter
Abstract
Serious illness puts pressure not only on individual family members but also on the family itself. The care of an acutely ill child requires the family to channel many of its resources toward a single member--an arrangement that can usually be sustained for a while but that cannot continue indefinitely while the other members do without. Illness disrupts ordinary familial functions and, if it is serious enough, threatens to break the family altogether. In this article, I argue that there are situations in which the threat to family integrity is so real and serious that the interests of parents or siblings or sometimes grandparents may override the interests of the pediatric patient.
Keywords: best interest; child; ethics; family; law; literature.
Copyright © 2014 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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