What is it about?
Parents discuss and share strategies to use exemptions allowed in law to refuse vaccinations for their children, while maintaining the ability to enroll them in schools that require immunizations.
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Why is it important?
These strategies, discussions, and views communicate how parents see law, the state, and their rights. This article shows how individuals maneuver within and around law to accomplish their own goals.
Perspectives
I hope this article gives us new ways to think about law as not simply a system of requirements, but also a way of communicating shared responsibility. Controversies about vaccines reveal the tension between social relationships and individual rights.
Jennifer Reich
University of Colorado
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This page is a summary of: “I Have to Write a Statement of Moral Conviction. Can Anyone Help?”: Parents’ Strategies for Managing Compulsory Vaccination Laws, Sociological Perspectives, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0731121418755113.
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