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2. Parental consent - Wikipedia

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   Parental consent laws (also known as parental involvement laws) [1] in some countries require that one or more parents consent to or be notified before their minor child [2] can legally engage in certain activities. Parental consent may refer to: A parent's right to give consent, or be informed, before their minor child undergoes medical ...

3. Mature minor doctrine - Wikipedia

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   The mature minor doctrine is a rule of law found in the United States and Canada accepting that an unemancipated minor patient may possess the maturity to choose or reject a particular health care treatment, sometimes without the knowledge or agreement of parents, and should be permitted to do so. [1]

4. Informed consent - Wikipedia

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   Guardians are typically involved in the consent of children, however a number of doctrines have developed that allow children to receive health treatments without parental consent. For example, emancipated minors may consent to medical treatment, and minors can also consent in an emergency. [13]

5. Emancipation of minors - Wikipedia

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   An emancipated minor does not simply acquire all rights of an adult; likewise, a child does not lack such rights merely because they are not emancipated. For example, in the US minors have some rights to consent to medical procedures without parental consent or emancipation, under the doctrine of the mature minor.

6. Children in clinical research - Wikipedia

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   The trial must involve no more than a minor increase over minimal risk. The treatments must be appropriate to the condition or to medical care that the child would otherwise receive. The treatment must either yield "generalizable knowledge" about the specific condition that is vital for understanding or treatment.

7. Age of consent in the United States - Wikipedia

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   It is a defense to a prosecution pursuant to sections 13-1404 and 13–1405 in which the minor's lack of consent is based on incapacity to consent because the minor was fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years of age if at the time the defendant engaged in the conduct constituting the offense the defendant did not know and could not reasonably have ...