Try living in Massachusetts, where a routine trip to the doctor for my 9 y.o. daughter’s annual checkup now included questions like: “do you wear your seatbelt? Do your parents smoke? Do they own guns?” Asking this to HER - not me, WHILE I AM IN THE ROOM! He writes the answers on her medical record.
Then when she was 13, it was “ok, now we’ll check your ears, and then if you want, Mom can leave the room so you can ask me anything you want”!! I said “I don’t think so, she can ask you anything she wants in front of me”. I felt like saying “can I have a few minutes alone with YOUR children to ask THEM invasive questions?”. The liberals claim that doctors have to do this because parents don’t parent anymore.
Evidently this is a mandated-Massachusetts thing?
Yikes.
It sickens me to see what this once great country has become.
I take it you didn’t have to actually leave the room? Maybe Deval can get that mandated too.
I discussed this with my kids before we went into the doctor’s office. They always said no to the suggestion.
We also discussed how to answer invasive, personal questions.
I never thought I wouldn’t have a problem lying, but....I still do, but that isn’t going to stop me when it could mean social services at my door, or getting blown in to the authorities for something.
I don’t know anyone in WV that doesn’t own a gun. OK wait, 2 families. One is my neighbor who is a convicted felon(growing 385 pot plants) and my son’s friend’s family, but Dad is from Mass and they lived in Kalifornia for years. :)
Parent sent from the room, so the doctor can talk privately with a 12-year-old, happens in PA too. And you had better not refuse.