Do Parents Who Share Joint Legal Custody Need to Be in Agreement About the HPV Vaccine?
Do Parents Who Share Joint Legal Custody Need to Be in Agreement About the HPV Vaccine? Tuesday October 21, 2008#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) An interesting question came up in the Single Parents Forum yesterday. A reader explained that her ten-year-old daughter was taken to the doctor while she was in the custody of her father and stepmother. During the appointment, the stepmother gave her approval for the child to receive Gardasil — a relatively new vaccine for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted disease, and the leading cause of cervical cancer. The reader explained that she and her ex share joint legal custody, and while she would not necessarily have disagreed with