The Child's Right to Die at Home

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 925-925
Author(s):  
ENRICO DAVOLI ◽  
JOSEPH C. EVERS
Keyword(s):  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Right To Die ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
Emotional Strength ◽  
Do So ◽  
At Home

If circumstances permit, we believe that the terminally ill and incurable child should be given the right to die at home. The child's disease, the physical and emotional strength of the parents, the number of children in the family, and the economic situation of the family must certainly be considered. There are some parents who could not face the problem at home and we do not feel that they should be forced to do so. Quite recently we had the sad experience of treating a 4½-year-old boy with neuroblastoma.

Nordic retirement contracts and the economic situation of widows

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
BEATRICE MORING
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
The Family ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Right

The aim of this article is to explore the economic status and the quality of life of widows in the Nordic past, based on the evidence contained in retirement contracts. Analysis of these contracts also shows the ways in which, and when, land and the authority invested in the headship of the household were transferred between generations in the Nordic countryside. After the early eighteenth century, retirement contracts became more detailed but these should be viewed not as a sign of tension between the retirees and their successors but as a family insurance strategy designed to protect the interests of younger siblings of the heir and his or her old parents, particularly if there was a danger of the property being acquired by a non-relative. Both the retirement contracts made by couples and those made by a widow alone generally guaranteed them an adequate standard of living in retirement. Widows were assured of an adequately heated room of their own, more generous provision of food than was available to many families, clothing and the right to continue to work, for example at spinning and milking, but to be excused heavy labour. However, when the land was to be retained by the family, in many cases there was no intention of establishing a separate household.

Parents of the Welfare State: Pedagogues as Parenting Guides

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Ida Dannesboe ◽  
Dil Bach ◽  
Bjørg Kjær ◽  
Charlotte Palludan
Keyword(s):  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
The Family ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Simultaneous Process ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Right ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development ◽  
At Home

In Denmark, a process of defamilising has taken place since the expansion of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector in the 1960s, in the sense that children now spend a large part of their childhood outside the family. Nevertheless, parents are still seen as key figures in children's upbringing and as having primary responsibility for the quality of childhood, implying a simultaneous process of refamilising. Based on ethnographic fieldwork we show that parents are not only held responsible for their children's lives at home, but also for ensuring that ECEC staff have the best possible opportunity to support children's development at ECEC institutions. We analyse how ECEC staff offer guidance on how to be a responsible parent who cooperates in the right ways, and on how to cultivate children's development at home. Parents willingly accept such advice because of a strong risk awareness embedded in diagnostic forms, positioning ECEC staff as parenting experts.

Belgium gives terminally ill people the right to die

BMJ ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 323 (7320) ◽  
pp. 1024-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Right To Die ◽  
The Right

Where to die? That is the question: A study of cancer patients in Israel

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frida Barak ◽  
Sofia Livshits ◽  
Haana Kaufer ◽  
Ruth Netanel ◽  
Nava Siegelmann-Danieli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care Patient ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
The Family ◽  
Dying At Home ◽  
Do So ◽  
At Home

AbstractObjective:Most patients prefer to die at home, but barely 30% do so. This study examines the variables contributing to dying at home.Methods:The participants were 326 cancer patients, of both genders, with a mean age of 63.25 years, who died from 2000 to 2008 and were treated by the palliative care unit of the Barzilai Hospital. Some 65.7% died at home and 33.4% in a hospital. The data were extracted from patient files. The examined variables were demographic (e.g., age, gender, marital status, ethnic background, number of years in Israel until death), medical (e.g., age at diagnosis, diagnosis, nature of last treatment, patient received nursing care, patient given the care of a social worker, patient had care of a psychologist, family received care of a social worker, patient had a special caregiver), and sociological (e.g., having insurance, having worked in Israel, living alone or with family, living with one's children, living in self-owned or rented house, family members working).Results:The findings indicate that the chances of dying at home are higher if the patient is non-Ashkenazi, the family got social worker care, the patient lived in a self-owned house, the patient lived with his family, the family members worked, and the patient's stay in Israel since immigration was longer. Logistic regression showed that all the predictors together yielded a significant model accounting for 10.9–12.3% of the variance.Significance of results:The findings suggest that dying at home requires maintaining continued care for the patient and family in a community context.

Caring for the Dying: From a “Negative” to a “Positive” Legal Right to Die at Home

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Doron
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Right To Die ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
At Home

The choice of the old and terminally ill to die at home has been the subject of various types of research. However, one of the aspects of this subject, which has been investigated very little, is its legal context. The absence of such legal research is contrasted by the vast amount of academic writing on the legal aspects of the right to die with dignity and euthanasia. The object of this article is to analyze and break down the “right to die at home” into its different legal components. This legal analysis will be based on Professor Isaiah Berlin’s definition of two different concepts of liberty: negative and positive freedoms. The main conclusion from the legal analysis presented in this article is that it is important to understand that at the legal level the right to die at home is dependent on many different elements. These elements may be classed in two basic categories: negative and positive freedoms and rights. Even though the former is a necessary condition of the latter, without the latter the first remains purely theoretical for many old people.

scholarly journals EFFORTS TO INCREASE INTEREST IN VASECTOMY FAMILY PLANNING ACCEPTORS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-243
Author(s):  
Agus Sulistyowati ◽  
Ni Putu Widari
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Family Planning Program ◽  
Safe Motherhood ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Planning Program ◽  
Childbearing Age ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right

Family planning is one of the four pillars of safe motherhood, which plays a role in ensuring that each person or partner has access to family planning information and services so that they can plan the right time for pregnancy, the length of pregnancy, and the number of children . The factor of the lack of success of the family planning program cannot be separated from the lack of interest in the community, especially couples of childbearing age (PUS) using contraceptives. of them still consider the high cost and not easy to use the stable contraceptive method. The steady method of contraception is a method of contraception which in men is called a vasectomy . Based on data from the 2017 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS), the percentage of male contraceptives using condoms is 2.5%. There are several factors that make men reluctant to take family planning, including low knowledge and understanding of reproductive rights, limited equipment. male contraception, social conditions, rumors about vasectomy and negative condom use (Depkes RI, 2010). According to Notoatmodjo (2010), knowledge is a big factor in increasing men's participation in family planning. One's knowledge of health can be obtained through health education, Ali (2000) revealed that health education is an educational activity carried out by spreading messages, instilling confidence, so that people are not only aware, know and understand, but also want and can do something. advice that has to do with health . Learning media or health education media that can and quickly deliver health messages include: television, radio, newspapers / magazines, posters / pamphlets, billboards / banners / banners, and the internet . Key words: Vasectomy, Acceptors, Family Planning

scholarly journals Family experience in managing distance education problems in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
Tatiana Margarint ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Family Experience ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Family

In this article we aim to analyze how families manage to overcome the challenges of distance schooling in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that comes with new requirements and options. We mention the difficult situation of families who find it difficult to ensure the necessary for online studies due to the precarious economic situation they are in, and/or large number of children in the family but also minimal knowledge to guide their children in terms of training and education. Parents talk about the technical means absent or insufficiently performing that they have, the absence of a personal space for students learning from home, etc. In these cases it is necessary to intervene in order not to leave any child out of education.

scholarly journals Sytuacja kobiet na rynku pracy w Polsce

2018 ◽  
pp. 179-188
Author(s):  
Magdalena KACPERSKA
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
Do So

The situation of women in the labor market in Poland depends on numerous complex micro- and macroeconomic factors. It results from the economic condition of the country and the global economic situation. It is a product of decisions made on a micro level as a result of macro circumstances. When discussing the employment market it should be borne in mind that it is not an ordinary market, such as the market for wellington boots or that of strawber- ries. The ‘product’ here is a human being and an ‘excess’ in the labor market creates a certain unfavorable outcome, namely unemployment. Just as an excess in the supply of wellingtons or strawberries leads to a drop in price, in the labor market it means cuts in salaries or stopping paychecks. That is why one of the tasks of the government is to provide people with the basic opportunity to get a job and earn money. Why then should the state react to the turbulence in the labor market when it does not necessarily have to do so in other markets? The answer is simply that wellingtons and strawberries do not have to provide for themselves and the family.

WAS MATTHEW ARNOLD'S CROOKED LEG CAUSED BY RICKETS?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-300
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Matthew Arnold ◽  
Second Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
Do So ◽  
At Home

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), poet and critic, the second child (of nine) and oldest son of Thomas and Mary Arnold, had a crooked leg and spent two years of his childhood in heavy iron braces—the family nicknamed him "Crabby" for his shuffling gait. Park Homan1 in his recently published biography of Matthew Arnold describes the treatment Arnold received for his crooked leg as follows: Instructing his infants in oarsmanship, the father now took them out on the Trent in the Frolic.... Within a day or two of this time, she [Mrs. Arnold] noticed that something was wrong with Matthew's leg.... But within ten days of leaving the River Trent, the Arnolds consulted Mr. Tothill, back at home, and then a London specialist—with the result that a frightening iron apparatus arrived ... to be fitted to his limbs. His father was not deeply worried: ‘We have had some anxiety about Matt,’ Thomas Arnold wrote to a friend ... ‘from the Effects of a bad habit of crawling before he could walk, and which was greatly bent one of his Legs, so that he has obliged to wear Irons, and must continue to do so for some time.’ At two or three, most children become excitedly aware of themselves in relation to other people, but Matthew found that thick leg-straps and leg-braces of the heaviest iron made him peculiar and decidedly ugly. He found it difficult to move about and reacted very audibly. ‘I also remember,’ he writes at 13, ‘wearing irons and being obstinate and being taken up to London about my crooked legs.’

Right to Try and Physician Assisted Suicide: Similar or Different?

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 122-122
Author(s):  
Andrea Martani ◽  
◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right To Die ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Terminally Ill Patients ◽  
Conflicting Interests ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
Experimental Treatments ◽  
The Right

"In the last few years, the debate whether terminally ill patients should have access to experimental treatments without governmental supervision has intensified. The so-called “Right-to-Try” (RTT) doctrine has become popular especially in the United States, where the federal parliament passed a bill allowing such practices. As many other policies concerning patients’ autonomy in end-of-life circumstances, the appropriateness of RTT has often been challenged. In this context, some authors recently put forward the argument that states where it is allowed to request physician assisted suicide (PAS) should also necessarily recognize a RTT. In the authors’ own words: “if states can give a terminally ill patient the right to die using medications with 100% probability of being unsafe and ineffective against his/her disease [i.e. the substances used for PAS], they should also be able to grant terminally ill patients a right to try medications with less than 100% probability of being unsafe and ineffective [i.e. ET]”. In this contribution, I will question this argument by underlying three flaws in the authors’ comparison of RTT and PAS. First, there is a fundamental distinction in the nature of the choices between the two situations concerning the (un)certainty of their outcomes. Second, the number of actors (and their potential conflicting interests) involved in these two situations is different. Third, the authors’ understanding of the object of patients’ rights in PAS is partially incorrect. I will conclude by arguing that, although reasons might exist to support RTT, such comparison with PAS is not one of them. "

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