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Protect Our Children: Vaccination Exemptions Can Establish Child Abuse and Neglect
Author(s) -
Ramirez Kathleen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/fcre.12412
Subject(s) - neglect , statute , vaccination , child abuse , medicine , environmental health , psychology , family medicine , political science , psychiatry , suicide prevention , law , poison control , immunology
The need to protect public health has increased as the anti‐vaccine movement is on the rise. Exemptions to vaccination requirements have become more lax, and parents find ways to avoid vaccinating their children, thereby exposing not only their children to the dangers of serious diseases, but other children as well. This Note proposes a federal statute mandating that parents subject their children between the ages of infancy and 6 to acquire vaccinations for all diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unless a licensed physician recommends otherwise.