IO ritengo come Pianogrande che - trattandosi di due minorenni - la questione della stretta di mano sia secondaria.
Ci sono questioni più serie: ad esempio quelle sanitarie.
Una giovane dell'Idaho, con gravi disabilità perché non le era stata curata una malformazione congenita al cuore, ha deciso di fare causa ai genitori, fondamentalisti mormoni. Si erano infatti rifiutati di farla operare quando ancora i tempi lo permettevano poiché convinti che preghiere e riti l'avrebbero guarita. Con gli anni, la ragazza è peggiorata, tanto che vive grazie a un respiratore e le sue condizioni si fanno sempre più precarie.
Il suo non è l'unico caso: in alcuni stati degli Usa diversi bambini nati in sette cristiane sono morti, anche perché le norme locali difendono la "libertà religiosa" di non curare i figli.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... dical-helpLetting them die: parents refuse medical help for children in the name of Christ
The Followers of Christ is a religious sect that preaches faith healing in states such as Idaho, which offers a faith-based shield for felony crimes – despite alarming child mortality rates among these groups
Mariah Walton’s voice is quiet – her lungs have been wrecked by her illness, and her respirator doesn’t help. But her tone is resolute.
“Yes, I would like to see my parents prosecuted.”
Why?
“They deserve it.” She pauses. “And it might stop others.”
Mariah is 20 but she’s frail and permanently disabled. She has pulmonary hypertension and when she’s not bedridden, she has to carry an oxygen tank that allows her to breathe. At times, she has had screws in her bones to anchor her breathing device. She may soon have no option for a cure except a heart and lung transplant – an extremely risky procedure.
All this could have been prevented in her infancy by closing a small congenital hole in her heart. It could even have been successfully treated in later years, before irreversible damage was done. But Mariah’s parents were fundamentalist Mormons who went off the grid in northern Idaho in the 1990s and refused to take their children to doctors
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Meno importante, ma rilevante per la questione della "patria potestà":
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-36074482Muslim father loses circumcision court battle over sons
18 April 2016
From the section Cornwall
A Muslim father has failed to persuade a judge to rule his sons should be circumcised.
The man argued that circumcision would be in accordance with his religious beliefs.
But the boys' mother, who is separated from their father, disagreed.
At a Family Court hearing in Exeter, Mrs Justice Roberts said the boys, who are six and four, should first reach an age where they can make the decision for themselves.
'Individual choices'
The man had argued that it would be "in the children's best interests to allow them to be circumcised" in accordance with his "Muslim practice and religious beliefs".
His former partner "opposes that course until such time as the children have reached an age where they are competent to give consent to such a procedure," the judge added.
"There is no guarantee that these boys will wish to continue to observe the Muslim faith with the devotion demonstrated by their father, although that may very well be their choice.
"They are still very young and there is no way of anticipating at this stage how the different influences in their respective parental homes will shape and guide their development over the coming years."
Mrs Justice Roberts said she was deferring that decision "to the point where each of the boys themselves will make their individual choices once they have the maturity and insight to appreciate the consequences and longer-term effects of the decisions which they reach."
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