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Record W7127921007 · doi:10.26443/law.v70i4.2624

Best Interests or Autonomy?

2025· article· en· W7127921007 on OpenAlexafffundvenue
Claire Houston

Bibliographic record

VenueMcGill Law Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEthics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsFamily lawAutonomyBest interestsHealth lawWelfareCommon law

Abstract

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Family courts are struggling to resolve parenting disputes over children’s treatment. These cases ask judges to decide such sensitive matters as whether a young person will be vaccinated against their wishes, granted access to gender-affirming healthcare, or forced into therapy. Parenting disputes over children’s treatment implicate two distinct and potentially conflicting areas of law: family law and health law. Because family law and health law employ different legal standards and espouse different legal principles, the outcome in these cases may depend on which legal framework is applied. This article makes two contributions. First, it surveys recent family court decisions and suggests that courts are resolving parenting disputes over children’s treatment in one of three ways: (1) applying health law rather than family law; (2) drawing on health law principles in applying family law; and, most commonly, (3) applying family law rather than health law. Second, I look to larger debates around children’s welfare versus autonomy to make a case for how the apparent tension between family law and health law in these cases may be reconciled.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.040
Scholarly communication0.0070.011
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0080.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.410
Teacher spread0.350 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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