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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I was 13 and I had an std I wouldn't want my parents to know. Great idea now kids can get treated without their parents knowing, [/quote]

If a young teen (still a child) is having sex that results in an std or worse, their parents should know, because either the kid is engaging in terrible at risk behavior or the teen it being abused or exploited by someone.  That same kid cannot carry her own epipen or inhaler in school without written parent permission, nor can she take her own tylenol at school, yet her parents must jumo through hoops to access her medical info?

This is stupidity at its worst.[/quote]

While I understand that in most families, it is safe for the parents to access the children's medical records, there are many, many families where that isn't the case.  There are many families where if the parents found out their children were having sex, they would disown them or throw them out of the house.  Even for some that wouldn't their behavior towards their children makes the children think this might happen.  In those families, children get exposed to STDs, or get pregnant and the children do drastic things to avoid telling their parents.  Some will ignore the issue, not get medical help and end up seriously ill and in some cases infertile when they could have been treated early and had no issues.  There are girls that have tried to get illegal dangerous abortions to avoid the possibility of their parents finding out and then had some major health crisis (or died). So, the laws are to protect the children with irresponsible, violent or unreasonable parents and unfortunately it inconveniences the normal parents.

The idea is to create some accessible way for children to get medical help without their parents knowledge to ensure that they actually DO get help instead of ignoring a health issue or worse, doing something illegal and dangerous just to avoid letting their parents know.  Parents can still contact the doctors in other ways, but the electronic path was deemed to be the most accessible and easiest for kids to get the medical help they needed without their parents' knowledge.[/quote]

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