Kentucky students will be required to have a medical practitioner’s order and signed parental consent in order to receive over the counter medications from school ...

When the new school year began in April last year, a 51-year-old Tokyo woman received a notice from her son's elementary ...

Parental consent — often required in writing — is a legal safeguard that gives parents the right to approve or deny their child’s participation in […]Parental consent: What parents need to ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday that a state law that allows minors to get an abortion without their parents’ consent is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel ...

Many accounts of informed consent in medical ethics claim that it is valuable because it supports individual autonomy. Unfortunately there are many distinct conceptions of individual autonomy, and ...

The Kerala High Court has held that adoption of a child by his/her step-parent cannot be permitted as long as the biological parent does not give consent for the adoption. Justice C.S. Dias made ...

That child's mother confirmed the story to CBC News, and said her daughter's consent form was marked "no". Another parent, Crystal Klengenberg, said her five-year-old son also received a flu ...

Rayanna Graham, a senior at the Wake Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Raleigh, said some students forget to ask their parents or are too embarrassed to ask them to sign the consent form.

MediaNama talked to parents who have completed the process ... they asked us to sign a consent form, but that’s about it”, she said. “Didn’t Know it wasn’t mandatory” Another family ...

She added that parents were entitled to the sample as in ... purpose of IVF. The form, she told the BBC, had the mobile numbers of both father and son, which implied consent.

As their son was diagnosed with a form of cancer ... The court stressed the importance of informed consent and the welfare of the future child. It held that, while the semen sample could be classified ...