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- Title
Adolescents' competency to make informed birth control and pregnancy decisions: an interface for psychology and the law.
- Authors
Carter, Patricia I.; St. Lawrence, Janet S.; St Lawrence, Jane S
- Abstract
This paper explores the interface between psychology and the law as it relates to the informed consent doctrine and adolescents' legal competency to make in. formed decisions regarding birth control and pregnancy terminations. The complicated developmental, clinical, ethical, and legal issues have stimulated the courts to express their need for empirical evidence in the issue. To dale, no such investigation has been reported in the literature. A research strategy is proposed which could address the courts' need for substantive data upon which to base legal decisions regarding adolescents' competency to reach reproductive decisions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAW enforcement; INFORMED consent (Medical law); BIRTH control; ABORTION; LEGAL status of teenage girls; ADOLESCENT health; ADOLESCENT psychology; LEGAL psychology; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1985, Vol 3, Issue 3, p309
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370030307