Parental Consent
This is a word which has become more and more important in the last few decades. If you give consent you are agreeing to the act or procedure. Of course in medicine we talk not just about consent but about informed consent. I wrote a post about informed consent in 2019: https://www.homeopathbarbara.nz/informed-consent/ What that post didn’t go into was parental consent. It has been the general view in New Zealand that age 16 is the age of consent. You …