Bernet W
Vanderbilt Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee.
Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1993;21(3):357-64.
Despite the frequency of divorce, there are no comprehensive guidelines for the relative rights of custodial and noncustodial parents. Since there are no definite rules for the parties to follow, divorced parents receive conflicting advice and are more likely to engage in bitter misunderstandings. This paper creates a framework for defining whether the noncustodial parent has a right to authorize emergency medical care, routine medical care, serious nonemergency medical care, psychiatric evaluation, and psychiatric treatment. The author suggests that the noncustodial parent should be able to authorize routine medical treatment, but not routine psychiatric treatment.
尽管离婚现象很常见，但对于监护方和非监护方父母的相关权利，却没有全面的指导方针。由于没有明确的规则供当事人遵循，离婚父母会收到相互矛盾的建议，而且更有可能陷入激烈的误解之中。本文创建了一个框架，用于界定非监护方父母是否有权授权进行紧急医疗护理、常规医疗护理、严重非紧急医疗护理、精神评估和精神治疗。作者建议，非监护方父母应能够授权进行常规医疗治疗，但不能授权进行常规精神治疗。
