A judge authorizes a father to vaccinate his children even though the mother refuses

A judge of the Hearing of Vigo, ratifies a judgment of first instance that authorizes the father to decide on the vaccination of his two children, aged 7 and 11, against the mother's refusal.

The court considers that this is the decision that guarantees the “best interests of the minors” and bases its sentence on the fact that the mother's refusal lacks scientific endorsements, while the vaccination schedule “obeys studies and scientific reports that seek a better protection of the population and not mere arbitrariness or errors. "

"The benefits of vaccines are undeniable"

When their children were born, they made the joint decision not to vaccinate them, but then the father became aware of the importance of vaccination for children's health.

Upon separating (in 2013), and the father initiated legal actions to obtain authorization to do so, to which Justice proved him right, but the mother appealed on the grounds that previously the two parents "mutually agreed the decision not to vaccinate their children and that vaccination in Spain is voluntary."

The father alleges in his defense brief that it is not that he was against vaccination, but that "he was not able to impose his judgment during the marriage and less after the breakup, due to the attribution of custody to the mother."

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Now the Justice ratifies that sentence, and seeing that there is no possible agreement between the parents, definitively authorizes the father to vaccinate her children even though the mother disagrees (no possibility to appeal).

The ruling also emphasizes that "the benefits of vaccines are undeniable" and that if a child is out of the immunization schedule, it may be impaired in access to education centers, such as public daycare centers.

"Not only has it not been proven from the medical point of view that vaccines cause harm to health, but, on the contrary, most scientific studies on the subject lead to conclude that the benefits of vaccines are undeniable both at the individual level as a population, "says the judge in the ruling.

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