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It depends on the child’s mental capacity. BC’s ''[http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96223_01 Infants Act]'' says that children under 19 can consent to their own healthcare if a healthcare provider has decided that the child understands the nature and consequences, and the reasonably foreseeable benefits and risks, of the healthcare. And the healthcare provider must also have decided that the healthcare is in the child’s best interests. In those cases, a child does not need the consent of a parent or guardian to see a doctor. And healthcare providers must keep the healthcare private. So a child could get a prescription for birth control, without a parent’s permission. A teenager could also get an abortion without their parents’ consent. | It depends on the child’s mental capacity. BC’s ''[http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96223_01 Infants Act]'' says that children under 19 can consent to their own healthcare if a healthcare provider has decided that the child understands the nature and consequences, and the reasonably foreseeable benefits and risks, of the healthcare. And the healthcare provider must also have decided that the healthcare is in the child’s best interests. In those cases, a child does not need the consent of a parent or guardian to see a doctor. And healthcare providers must keep the healthcare private. So a child could get a prescription for birth control, without a parent’s permission. A teenager could also get an abortion without their parents’ consent. | ||
For more on this, check script [[Children and Consent to | For more on this, check script [[Children and Consent to Health Care (Script 422)|422]], called “Children and Consent to Health Care”. | ||
==What rights do children have if they are hospitalized against their will for psychiatric treatment?== | ==What rights do children have if they are hospitalized against their will for psychiatric treatment?== | ||
