Why families matter

Serious illness puts pressure not only on individual family members but also on the family itself. The care of an acutely ill child requires the family to channel many of its resources toward a single member--an arrangement that can usually be sustained for a while but that cannot continue indefinit...

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Published in:	Pediatrics (Evanston) Vol. 134 Suppl 2; no. Supplement_2; pp. S97 - S103
Main Author:	Lindemann, Hilde
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Academy of Pediatrics 01-10-2014
Subjects:	Child Critical Illness - psychology Decision Making Family - psychology Grandparents Humans Parents - psychology Pediatrics Siblings Siblings - psychology literature best interest law ethics family child
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Summary:	Serious illness puts pressure not only on individual family members but also on the family itself. The care of an acutely ill child requires the family to channel many of its resources toward a single member--an arrangement that can usually be sustained for a while but that cannot continue indefinitely while the other members do without. Illness disrupts ordinary familial functions and, if it is serious enough, threatens to break the family altogether. In this article, I argue that there are situations in which the threat to family integrity is so real and serious that the interests of parents or siblings or sometimes grandparents may override the interests of the pediatric patient.
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ISSN:	0031-4005 1098-4275
DOI:	10.1542/peds.2014-1394E