title: Effectively and efficiently protecting children in faith healing cases: a proposed statutory revision for state intervention.
abstract: Parents may be free to become martyrs to themselves. But it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice themselves.
authors.affiliation: Syracuse University College of Law, New York.
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Tavolaro
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D003416:Criminal Law; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D008602:Mental Healing; D033242:Minors; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D035521:Supreme Court Decisions; D014481:United States