Health Care & Hospital Law,
Family
May 30, 2018
A library for legal disputes over child vaccination
What happens when parents are split on whether to vaccinate a child?
Paul A. Offit
Director
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Paul is director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
In 2016, an unvaccinated California 9-year-old contracted tetanus. Luckily, the girl did not die, but she spent several weeks in a hospital, conscious but paralyzed and suffering repeated spasms. She faced a long and hard recovery period after returning home. The child's mother is anti-vaccine. The child's father, who remarried after the parents divorced, wanted her vaccinated. The father, however, did not go to court until after the child was hospitalized. In other c...
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