Children Should Be Allowed Legally To Make Their Own Medical Decisions

Prepubescent/pubescent are underrated adults. Since adult independence begins at the age of eighteen, most medical decisions for the children under eighteen are being made by their parents. However, research has shown that children are capable of making 'adult' decisions by the age of eleven (e.g. medical decisions). Children should be allowed legally to make their own medical decision at the age of twelve because they are underrated, they are capable of great thinking at age eleven, and there are many pros that outweigh the cons.
Modern society does not give pubescents or prepubescents any faith. They are put off as people who do not know anything about the Real World and are not capable of making any sound decisions. There are many intelligent
The parents may question their child’s maturity, their child’s knowledge, and their child’s ability to work under pressure. Parents are the only people to see all aspects of their children. They are the ones that see all their personalities, they see them at their worst as well as their best. They are the ones that see how they behave, how they act under certain situations, how they respond to pressure. Nonetheless, parents are not the ones feeling what their child is feeling. They may believe that they are the “wise” ones regarding medical care, but are they really. How will they know what decision to make if they do not know what the one undergoing their decision feels mentally and physically? Take for example the situation where the little girl and her mother got in a car accident and were rushed to the hospital. The child wanted to live, she wanted a chance at life. Her mother on the other hand, did not want the doctor to make the blood transfusion because of religious purposes. If a person that is under eighteen happens to find themselves in this situation, should not they be the ones to decide what happens to their own body? Should not they themselves be the ones to decide if it is the quality of life that matters, not the quantity? It is their life, they are the ones that have to live in their body, they are the ones that have to live with the possible pain, and they are the ones that understand and feel and experience. They should be the ones to decide what they want for