Adolescent psychological development, parenting styles, and pediatric decision making.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child risks harm to adolescents insofar as it encourages not only poor decision making by adolescents but also parenting styles that will have an adverse impact on the development of mature decision-making capacities in them. The empirical psychological and neurophysiological data weigh against augmenting and expression of the rights of children. Indeed, the data suggest grounds for expanding parental authority, not limiting its scope. At the very least, any adequate appreciation of the moral claims regarding the authority of parents with respect to the decision-making capacity of adolescents needs to be set within an understanding of the psychological and neurophysiological facts regarding the development of adolescent decision-making capacity.
Partridge
Brian C
BC
Kenai Peninsula College-Kachemak Bay Campus, 533 East Pioneer Ave, Homer, Alaska 99603, USA. brian_partridge@yahoo.com
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D041923:Adolescent Development; D001318:Authoritarianism; D003657:Decision Making; D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D028701:Patient Rights; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D014480:United Nations