Parental Autonomy v. Child Autonomy v. State Authority Powers

Autonomy Software: V&V Challenges and Characteristics

The successful operation of unmanned air vehicles requires software with a high degree of autonomy. Only if high level functions can be carried out without human control and intervention can complex missions, in a changing and potentially unknown environment, be carried out successfully. Autonomy software is highly mission and safety critical: failures, caused by flaws in the software cannot on...

Adaptation, Autonomy, and Authority

Adaptation is a fact of life. If I walk down the street and fall down a manhole, I’m likely to keep a lookout for open manholes in the future. In this case, I adapt to my circumstances; I take a more cautious approach than I might otherwise have. This is true of all forms of life, and plausibly helps to explain the fact that there is, in fact, life at all. Adaptation of preferences is not much ...

Deciding for imperilled newborns: medical authority or parental autonomy?

The ethical issues around decision making on behalf of infants have been illuminated by two empirical research studies carried out in Scotland. In-depth interviews with 176 medical and nursing staff and with 108 parents of babies for whom there was discussion of treatment withholding/withdrawal, generated a wealth of data on both the decision making process and the management of cases. Both sta...

Medical care for the child at risk: on state supervention of parental autonomy.

Troxel, et vir, Petitioners v. Granville: grandparents' rights or parental autonomy?

In December 1993, Garyand JenniferTroxel filed a petition in Washington Superior Court to obtain increased visitation with their two granddaughters under theprovision ofaWashington statuteallowing any person toseekvisitation ofachild ifthevisitation could beshown to be in the child's best interest.' The trial courtgranted increased visitations to thegrand parents. The Washington Court ofAppeals...