Court forcing 16 yr old with cancer into chemo

[BarTopDancer]

As much as it sucks, until the age of 18 parents, or guardians have control over your body. You have to have parental consent to get piercings and tattoos. In some places you have to have consent to certain medical care (abortions) and some places you don't.

At 18 you are considered old enough to vote, to make your own medical decisions, and enlist in the military (but not old enough to drink legally, that is another issue for another time).

So, I can see why this 16 y/o could not make the decision for himself what medical care he wants to receive; however, his parents were supporting him in his choice and that should be where it ends. If the parents wanted him to only have alternative medicine and he wanted convential medicine I could see an issue, and if he wanted alternative and his parents wanted conventional I could see an issue. I could even see a court battle in these cases.

But in the end, the age of adult is 18, and until then his parents should get the final say, not the courts, and not the social services fighting on behalf of the courts to invoke a choice that neither parent, nor child wanted.