TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - The best-interests standard as threshold, ideal, and standard of reasonableness
JO  - Journal of medicine and philosophy
A1  - Kopelman, Loretta M.
SP  - 271
EP  - 289
VL  - 22
IS  - 3
N2  - The best-interests standard is a widely used ethical, legal, and social basis for policy and decision-making involving children and other incompetent persons. It is under attack, however, as self-defeating, individualistic, unknowable, vague, dangerous, and open to abuse. The author defends this standard by identifying its employment, first, as a threshold for intervention and judgment (as in child abuse and neglect rulings), second, as an ideal to establish policies or prima facie duties, and, third, as a standard of reasonableness. Criticisms of the best-interests standard are reconsidered after clarifying these different meanings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0360-5310
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -