Sentences with phrase «parent against her wishes»

She supports a woman's right to an abortion, is against the death penalty and corporal punishment, is not in favor of adopted children digging up their biological parents against their wishes, and believes that Dr. Jack Kevorkian and the incurably ill people who turn to him for painless deaths should be left alone.

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We went to church against our parent's wishes.

While sitting on hospital medical - ethics committees, I have sometimes worried that physicians are tempted, against the wishes of parents, to refuse or slow down life - sustaining treatment to an infant they think is better off dead.

A High Court judge has given doctors permission to provide only palliative care to 12 - month - old Isaiah Haastrup, against the wishes of his parents, Lanre Haastrup and Takesha Thomas.

Against his parents» wishes, the hospital where Evans was receiving care withdrew life support, and Evan's parents were barred by British courts from seeking outside care for Alfie.

In February, Mr Justice Hayden ruled that doctors at Alder Hey could stop treating Alfie against the wishes of his parents following hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London and Liverpool.

Does the state have the right to decide the appropriate medical treatment for children against their parents» wishes?

Doctors have been told they can stop providing life - support treatment to a brain - damaged boy against his Christian parents» wishes.

Secondly, if the father wants to register against the mother's wishes, the court, whilst it can not deny PR to any parent on child welfare grounds (as it currently prevented from doing so except for unmarried fathers), the court can use a Section 8 order to limit the exercise of PR by any parent on child welfare grounds.

In my law practice, I also hear stories from time to time about newborns being vaccinated in the hospital after birth without the parents» permission and against the parents» wishes.

Such a little thing — but in order to achieve it, she went against the wishes of the child's adoptive parents, her superiors, and the prison authorities, all of whom thought she was wasting her, and their, time.

Do you wish you knew how to enjoy and balance your happiness against a backdrop of the grief and loss of your child's birth parents?

Worse, babies often receive formula against parents» wishes.

The purpose of this report is not to argue for or against home schooling but to describe the provision and practice of a small school where an approach to «flexi - schooling» is widely acknowledged as successfully meeting parents» wishes and children's educational needs.

At around this age, they discover that they have a will of their own and it is «possible» to do things against the wish of the parents.

it's also about sneaking food when they're not ready (before 6mos) and against the parents wishes.

After two decades of calling Bronx Community College's campus home, University Heights High School is to be relocated to the South Bronx, against the wishes of parents, students and teachers.

It's only for kids under 18 that you have to follow the doctor order against the parent wish — something I don't like myself.

Completely against her parents» wishes, Bridget falls for the foster child of a famous rap star, causing her to grow up very fast.

Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) takes her family - owned newspaper, the Washington Post, in a risky new direction in «The Post»; Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) meets his white girlfriend's parents only to discover they're a vicious pack of loons in Jordan Peele's «Get Out»; and little Miguel (voiced by young Anthony Gonzalez) desperately tries to pursue music against his abuela's wishes in Pixar's «Coco.»

Friend Leonard (Jesse Camacho), «the fat kid at school» discovers a lust for life and undergoes a transformation deciding, against his parent's wishes, that he is going to change his diet and lose weight.

One of the stars of that play is the idealistic bunny Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), who announces on stage that she intends to be the world's first bunny police officer, and many years later, against all odds and her parents» wishes, she succeeds.

The local government leaders said that there is «no evidence» that academies converting will improve results and suggested that the move was against the wishes of many parents and teachers.

«Those parents whose schools have been forcibly converted to academies, often against their wishes and those of the staff, will rightly question just whose interests the government has been pursuing in the last five years.»

They should also try to make sure that students are not required to take part in such programs against their parents» wishes.

The reports said that Audi was working on developing electric vehicles against parent Volkswagen's wishes.

Stop at Gretna Green, where eloping couples married against their parents» wishes.

Continue across the Scottish border and stop at Gretna Green, where eloping couples could marry against their parents» wishes.

She also had a rebellious streak — against her parents» wishes, she left for Black Mountain College in 1950, just after turning 18.

[3][4] Dimock developed an interest in art in her childhood and began her education in art in New York in her 20s against the wishes of her parents.

Where parents have relinquished a child (consensual adoption) and express a wish that the child be adopted outside the birth family, the degree of interference with family life is less than where the parent / child relationship is terminated against the parent's wishes (non-consensual adoption).

As was memorably said in Hewer v Bryant [1970] 1 QB 357 in a passage approved in Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [1986] 1 AC 112: «The legal right of a parent to the custody of a child ends at the eighteenth birthday and even up till then, it is a dwindling right which the courts will hesitate to enforce against the wishes of the child, the older he is.

Mostyn J, ruling in the Family Division that a child should receive surgical treatment for bone cancer against the wishes of his parents, has referred to Ian McEwan's «excellent» novel The Children Act (Jonathan Cape 2014), which is about a 17 year old Jehovah's Witness refusing a blood transfusion.

Vancouver BC child mobility child relocation lawyers deal with cases involving one parent wanting to move away with the parents» children against the wishes of the other parent.

Examples of recent cases include successfully defending a mother against allegations she had smothered and killed two of her children and applying for a reporting restriction order in the same case, defending parents in several cases where they were alleged to have caused death by shaking, defending a mother in a case where she was alleged to have caused multiple fractures, representing the local authority in a case where foster parents wished to prevent an adoption, representing a father in proceedings following an informal surrogacy arrangement, and representing a father who was alleged to have tampered with life - preserving equipment being used by his infant daughter.

When the negligence of a faculty member results in a child being injured a parent may wish to file a lawsuit against the school district.

@Emma4Change and the children who marched through the city streets last weekend simply refused to accept their parents» defeatist assumption that even a 75 percent majority in want of stricter firearm legislation (according to an NPR poll released last week) was impotent against the wishes of an all - powerful gun lobby.

The Guardian, 30 January 2018 Author: Caroline Davies «Doctors can withdraw life support for an 11 - month - old boy against the wishes of his parents, a judge has ruled.»

When a parent seeks to relocate against the other parent's wishes, the court will only approve a move that represents the child's best interests.

Arkansas judges won't order joint custody against parents» wishes, but they generally will not refuse to order it when divorcing parents request it.

If Children's Services decide it is in the child's best interests to remove the child from their parent's care, the social worker may apply to court for an order saying that the child should be removed against their wishes.

Sometimes it is important that one parent take a firm stand against the other parent's wishes, especially when those wishes are aimed at pleasing children's consumer needs.

Remember, even if there is a plan for adoption, a child can not be placed for adoption against the wishes of the parents without a placement order being made by the court.

California courts have a list of factors they consider when deciding whether to allow a custodial parent to relocate with a child against the wishes of the non-custodial parent.

If one parent is granted sole physical custody against the other parent's wishes, the other parent may be granted visitation time or parenting time with the child.