{"id":1986981,"date":"2023-07-31T15:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-department-confirms-separating-children-from-parents-at-on-base-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:42:58","slug":"defense-department-confirms-separating-children-from-parents-at-on-base-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-department-confirms-separating-children-from-parents-at-on-base-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Department confirms children being separated from parents at military hospitals."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefense-department-confirms-separating-children-from-parents-at-on-base-hospitals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986981&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Department \u2063of Defense&#8217;s Policy on \u2063Adolescent Healthcare<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Defense has implemented\u200b a policy \u200dthat aims to provide adolescent children with privacy during their medical appointments. According to a Pentagon\u2062 policy reviewed by the Washington Examiner, military\u2064 doctors will routinely ask parents to leave the examination room for &#8220;alone time&#8221;\u2064 with their children once they reach the ages of 12 and\u200d 13. This policy also includes keeping certain medical records confidential from parents \u2063starting around the same age.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting Privacy and Ensuring Informed Consent<\/h3>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-accounting-error-overvalued-military-aid-to-ukraine-by-over-6-billion\/\" title=\"Pentagon's mistake: Military aid to Ukraine overestimated by  billion.\">defense official explained<\/a> that federal \u200dlaw, specifically the Health Insurance Portability\u2063 and \u200bAccountability\u2063 Act \u200d(HIPAA), recognizes\u200b the \u2064privacy\u2062 interests of minors who are capable of providing \u200binformed consent for their own\u2062 healthcare. This typically occurs \u2063during adolescence.\u2063 As a\u2063 result, the Department of Defense cannot provide \u200bfull online access to parents or guardians for adolescents&#8217; medical records.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 Defense\u200d Department&#8217;s policy acknowledges \u2063that different state laws may come into play regarding\u200b parental involvement\u200c in healthcare decisions.\u200b However, when conflicting laws arise, the department&#8217;s rules on \u2064privacy \u2063take precedence, and the\u2063 Defense Health Agency\u2064 has the authority to \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-plan-to-reshape-america-with-3-5-trillion-social-spending-bill-runs-into-another-obstacle\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Plan To Reshape America With .5 Trillion Social Spending Bill Runs Into Another Obstacle\">make final decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns and Experiences of Parents<\/h3>\n<p>The Defense Department&#8217;s policy \u200ccame to light after a military wife, Amy Haywood,\u200c shared\u200c her experience when her family was stationed overseas. Haywood \u2064recounted how\u200c she was \u200basked to leave the room during her adolescent daughter&#8217;s doctor&#8217;s appointment, which involved invasive questions. While \u2063some doctors may ask parents to leave, others \u200dmay even require it. Haywood \u2063expressed that some parents felt pressured to comply against their better judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Haywood firmly\u2062 stood her ground and refused to leave the room, emphasizing the importance of parental \u2063involvement in guiding their children&#8217;s healthcare\u200c decisions. She \u200dquestioned\u2063 the department&#8217;s decision\u2064 to remove parents from the process, particularly on topics \u200dsuch as mental health, pregnancy, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-shocked-parents-oppose-porn-literacy-in-schools\/\" title=\"New York Times Shocked: Parents Oppose \u2018Porn Literacy\u2019 In Schools\">sexually transmitted diseases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Privacy and Confidentiality in Adolescent Healthcare<\/h3>\n<p>The Defense Department&#8217;s policy aligns with the growing trend among hospitals and states\u2063 to maintain confidentiality\u2064 for adolescents in certain healthcare matters. All 50 \u2064states legally protect the privacy of adolescents in areas like sexually transmitted \u2064infection testing and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Academics from the Society for Adolescent\u200c Health and \u200cMedicine have raised concerns about inadvertently disclosing\u200b protected information\u2064 to parents through automated appointment reminders.\u2064 They recommend that electronic health records vendors should allow for easy suppression of confidential information, \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lauds-scotus-makes-off-script-call-for-education-reform\/\" title=\"Trump praises SCOTUS, urges education reform off-script.\">granting parents access<\/a> \u200conly to \u200cnonconfidential details.<\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics, which actively\u200c supports children making their own medical decisions, particularly regarding\u2062 sexual health and\u2063 gender identity, also endorses the\u200c practice of separating parents during adolescent healthcare visits.<\/p>\n<h3>Parental Concerns and Trust<\/h3>\n<p>Haywood expressed her concern about the potential consequences of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-department-confirms-separating-children-from-parents-at-on-base-hospitals\/\" title=\"Defense Department confirms children being separated from parents at military hospitals.\">keeping important healthcare information \u200csecret<\/a> from parents. She emphasized the importance of teaching children about integrity, honor, loyalty, and good character. Haywood questioned \u200cthe ability\u200c of a \u200cstranger, such as a\u200c military doctor, to provide the best advice for her child&#8217;s life decisions, especially \u2064considering \u200bthe transient \u2063nature of military families\u200d and the lack\u2062 of familiarity with family doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these\u2062 concerns, the Defense Department&#8217;s Tricare online patient\u2062 portal cuts parents out of their child&#8217;s\u200d medical records at the age of 12, and the new \u2064Military Health System Genesis continues this practice at the age of \u200b13.<\/p>\n<p>Haywood believes that this\u200b issue should concern all Americans since it is happening within a military clinic, which falls under\u2063 the executive\u200c branch \u200dof the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to \u2063read more\u200d from the Washington\u200d Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon plans to separate kids from parents at on-base doctors&#8217; offices, as per a Department of Defense policy. Military doctors will regularly request parents to step out of the examination room for &#8220;alone time&#8221; with children once they turn 12, states mother Amy Haywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1986982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}