Suppose the researchers observed extremely poor quality care in one of the children's homes or day-cares. Are the researchers obligated to intervene so that children no longer experience poor quality care?
Who must give informed consent for the 8-year-old children to participate in this study?
Nancy, how do the researchers know what "poor quality care" is? Certainly holding guns to children's head might be considered to be poor quality care. But what if there were only red crayons (as used to be the case in East Germany)? Is that poor quality? How can a supposedly objective researcher decide on quality?
Informed consent should have been used for the parents to sign. If there was poor quality care then the researchers should not continue with the research. Then, when the children are eight years old, maybe they should give the informed consent to both, the parents and the child. The child should have the right to withdraw out of that experiment if he/she wanted to. The researchers also would have to determine what to label "poor quality care".
I feel the authorization for the child to participate should be given by both parents of the child and the daycare operators. The teacher of the child and the principle of the school should also be involved when the child is elgible for school. At anytime, the child should be able to withdraw from the experiment regardless of age.
I think intervention is necessary if poor quality child care is occuring. All we can use is our best objective opinions, it's the same with investigations into child abuse. The risks of us not intervening is toogreat to worry about false accusations. If there is any concern, this should be looked into. The children and their well fare are of utmost importance here.
I think intervention is necessary if poor quality child care is occuring. All we can use is our best objective opinions, it's the same with investigations into child abuse. The risks of us not intervening is toogreat to worry about false accusations. If there is any concern, this should be looked into. The children and their well fare are of utmost importance here.
Connie,
Connie,
The researchers are definately obligated to intervene. If a daycare is not up to standards, it should be upgraded to be a suitable and educational environment for children. If abuse or neglect is noted, it is most definately unethical for the researcher to do nothing.
Hey Cindy you got hte right idea. Researchers should be intervening in a situation where violence is taking place. I mean is an experiment more important than a child's life? Plus researchers may be in a situation where a teacher or a parent may want to know how smart their child is. The researcher should be keeping all these kind of results confidential unless stated before the experiment that it is o.k. to release the student's file.
Hi Garciam!
The reseacher is only obligated to report cases where the law is being broken, if a researcher does not like a codition it just to bad. It is up to the parent to disside what coditions are OK for their childern. Also, it was nice of the daycare to let the study take place. Informed consent should be provided to the daycare proir to the testing, and consent forms honoured.
By Digdon on Wednesday, March 18, 1998 - 04:55 pm:
By Connie on Tuesday, March 24, 1998 - 02:31 pm:
Just my two cents worth
By Nitkowski M on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:00 pm:
By Mark Wilson on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:14 pm:
By Cindy on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:16 pm:
By Cindy on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:17 pm:
By Garciam on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:26 pm:
I just want to know why there were only red crayons.
Informed consent should be given to the parents, but the child should be given all the information too. The child should be able to ask Qs. THe child should be notified that s/he does't have to do anything he doesn't want to.
The reserchers have the right to form an opinion on the quality of care and the parents have the right to know their opinion and to know what's going on. It is the parents choice what to do.
By Garciam on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:26 pm:
I just want to know why there were only red crayons.
Informed consent should be given to the parents, but the child should be given all the information too. The child should be able to ask Qs. THe child should be notified that s/he does't have to do anything he doesn't want to.
The reserchers have the right to form an opinion on the quality of care and the parents have the right to know their opinion and to know what's going on. It is the parents choice what to do.
By Alanna on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:28 pm:
Informed consent for the 8 year old children should not only be given by themselves, but also by their parents,and teachers in the daycare.
By Kristina Polziehn on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:31 pm:
By Connie on Thursday, March 26, 1998 - 03:31 pm:
The kids in East Germany only got red crayons because it was a communist country and that was their color. My parents once smuggled a box of other colored crayons into the country. Could you imagine only coloring in red?
Should the researchers intervene in such a case?
By Heath on Friday, March 27, 1998 - 01:45 pm:
A child's parent's and a child both have to agree to the informed consent on the part of the study that relates to the child, no one else, not the teacher or the daycare worker. But as mentioned before everyone involved should have an informed consent to agree to if it involves them..