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Types of Decisions
There are three different types of decisions that have to be made by parents with regard to their children. They include:
1. Major Decisions
2. Minor decisions
3. Emergency Decisions affecting Health and Safety
These are the important decisions about the child.
Major decisions are made by the parent or parents with legal custody.
These decisions include:
- Choice of school, college, or special tutoring
- Choice or change of doctor, surgeon, or dentist
- Church or religious instruction, training, or education
- Selection of child care (daycare, babysitters, afterschool programs)
- Major medical care, surgery, or any medical procedure requiring hospitalization or out-patient surgery
- Major dental work and orthodontics
- Psychological or psychiatric treatment or counseling
- Choice or change of camp, sports, and extracurricular activities
- The extent of any travel away from home
- Part or full-time employment of the child
- Whether the child gets a driver’s license, drives, or purchases a motor vehicle
- Birth control and sex education
- Actual or potential legal action on behalf of the child
These are the daily and routine decisions that need to be made for the child. These type decisions shall be made by the parent having actual physical custody at the time of the decision.
These decisions include:
- Minor medical treatment
- Bedtime
- Homework
- Chores
- Selection of clothing
- Normal daily activities.
These are emergency decisions that are of an urgent nature. They affect the immediate health and safety of the child and have to be made before it is possible to contact the other parent. The parent who is with the minor child requiring emergency care may make the emergency decision. The parent making the emergency decision shall advise the other parent of the nature and extent of the emergency as soon as possible.
These decisions include:
- Emergency medical treatment
- Emergency babysitters while the parent addresses an emergency.