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Originally Posted by Russ D
I think the issue was that the mother was not even told, never mind asked for consent.
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I don`t see why there should be any obligation to tell the mother, as far as I am concerned she has no rights as far as having any controlling influence on the decisions being made so she doesn`t have to be informed. I concur that it would have been preferable if the girl involved felt that she could go to her parents, but clearly that was not the case even though it seems like that was a mistake on her part.
Let me throw in a little hypothetical situation for you here. As I mentioned above, in this instance it would seem that this girl could have gone to her mother. But there will be situations in which telling the parents could cause more harm then good if the parents were the sort who would react to it in the wrong way. If you have the possibility of that scenario I do not feel that there can ever be an obligation for the parents to be informed.