Vaccinate Parents

I agree great response Sarah! Very informative post. Kayley I agree with you that it's kind of dumb that parents are opting out of vaccinating their children. Vaccinations have been around for a while now and they have helped more than they have harmed. I think some parents are jumping on the fad of not vaccinating their children because in the last few years it has been in the media and there are a few celebrities who are against vaccinating and I feel like they do have some influence on people. I also don't believe vaccinations are linked to problems and people are just looking for a reason why problems happen to their children and feel like they need an explanation and why not blame it on vaccinations.

Roughly over the last sixteen years, many parents have chosen to not vaccinate their children, putting other children at risk. This has been a huge debate across our country for many years now. Vaccinations should be mandatory and children should be completely up to date with all vaccinations before being allowed to attend school.

Over the past year, vaccinations have sparked controversy all over America. Some parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children. I believe that all members of the community should be properly vaccinated to avoid the spread of disease, to prevent introducing eradicated diseases to other countries, and to prevent premature death.

In the United States, the law states that vaccinations are required for children entering school unless they have a valid reason that prevents them from receiving the vaccinations. Starting when children are born, they begin the regimen of vaccinations that continue throughout their adolescent years and adulthood. Each year children receive a variation of shots to protect them from the illnesses they will encounter in the world, especially once they attend school. The most common reasons parents forego getting their children vaccinated are religious beliefs, medical exemptions, and personal beliefs. Due to the rising number of parents declining to get their children vaccinated, the number of outbreaks of preventable diseases has increased. The question is now should parents/guardians be forced to vaccinate their children?

Vaccines: More help or more hurt? No parent wants to hinder the health of their baby nor do they go into parenthood with the idea that they would love to have a child with any disease at all. Parents will do anything and everything in their power to keep their children safe. When following the recommendation of most doctors, children will receive upwards of 38 vaccinations by the time he or she is 18 months old. The idea of making vaccinations mandatory seems to have become somewhat of a risk to individual rights, some feel that the choice to vaccinate or not has been taken away from them. Although vaccinating children does have many positive outcomes, people tend to ignore the real cost of vaccinating children so heavily. A big decision arises for every new parent - one that the health of their child depends on - Do we vaccinate him? Many people see the positive chances of vaccinating children, and yes there are plenty of them. The chances of an adverse reaction are much less likely than getting the disease without a vaccination. Vaccinations have also been able to eradicate some diseases in the past, such as smallpox. Finally, when children are not vaccinated properly, they will go out into the world, meet people, go to school, all while they could be unknowingly carrying a disease that could have potentially been very easily deterred with an immunization. No child or parent should be forced into receiving

Vaccinations are promoted to be the best thing since sliced bread. People today know them as a cure to help eliminate childhood diseases and protect us from possible pandemics. So hypothetically what is the major issue with vaccines? Vaccinations contain ingredients used by funeral directors to preserve bodies (Scheibner p. 255). Children in the United States receive more vaccines and antibiotics than any other children around the globe (O’ Shea p. 54).Also, reports have shown that American children are becoming more and more sick. Finally, vaccinations are a multibillion dollar per year business, making 33.8 billion in 2012 alone (“’Vaccines Market Will Reach 33.8 Billion dollars in 2012’ Visiongain Report Predict.”). Anything involving that much money should be looked at and examined skeptically because is it about receiving a paycheck or the patient’s health? Government has threatened to block admission to schools if the vaccinations are not complete. As well as, Pediatricians are now refusing to see children not fully vaccinated due to vaccination tracking. Parents are responsible for guiding and protecting their children to adulthood and parents should have the right to choose what vaccinations their children should get, at which point in their life or if they should get any.

When it comes to certain topics there is always going to be controversy surrounding them; this is the case with the topic of whether or not children should be vaccinated. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) they recommend that children get vaccinated against up to 14 diseases within their first two years of life, and receiving booster shots as they get older. This idea leads to numerous debates on why children should be vaccinated or why parents should be able to opt out of vaccinating their children due to developmental concerns or religious beliefs. In my opinion, however, regardless of religious beliefs, vaccinations should be mandatory—unless there is a medical reason not to—because not only do vaccinations protect children from various diseases and can save their lives, but they also protect others around them and future generations.

Some people believe that vaccinations should be the choice of parents and that opting out should be an option. Although these beliefs have not been thought out thoroughly. “The Science is Not Settled”, by Sandy Reider incorrectly suggests that vaccinations aren’t beneficial and that they are almost useless. Jeffrey A. Singer also implies in “Vaccinations and Free Will” that people should not be forced to get a vaccine. Singer states, “Forcibly injecting substances… into someone else’s body cannot be justified as an act of self-defense..” (text 3). This quote is completely wrong. People get vaccinations to protect themselves and others. They were made for the protection of people, not to hurt them. It is self-defense, but not just for one person, for a large quantity of people. A vaccination is a mechanism of defense and people need to get them in order to stay healthy. Reider remarks, “We know that the young child’s nervous and immune systems are actively developing and uniquely vulnerable…” (text 4). A child’s nervous system is weak. At young ages, children cannot get vaccinated. Meaning, its an adult’s

Parents should be required to vaccinate their children. This is why vaccines should be mandatory. Parents need to keep up on their children’s immunization schedule. Babies can already start to get vaccines at birth and should follow up getting them every month for their second dose. The Immunize for Good website (2016), states the current recommendation U.S. childhood immunization schedule is timed to protect children from fourteen pathogens by vaccinating them at the time in their lives when they are most vulnerable to the disease. Leifer (2015) documented in her journal up to five percent of parents in the UK and nine percent in the United States refuse to allow their children to be vaccinated with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. The nine and five percent of parents need to realize they are harming their children by not protecting them with the vaccines. Parents need to realize all benefits of vaccinations, not only do they save lives in the present but also future generations, and they save money. Vaccines save children’s lives everyday and protect them from getting preventable diseases. Leifer (2015) put in her journal, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation one child dies every 20 seconds from vaccine preventable

I am very pro-vaccination. This year, more than ever we are seeing blowback from parents who think that it is their "right" to keep their children unvaccinated. I have heard arguments including research studies linking autism to vaccination that was flawed and disproved years ago. Repeatedly. I have heard mothers say that they don't have to have their children vaccinated, just being around my vaccinated children will help theirs. I've heard herd immunity thrown around, and realized that people have no idea what it means, or how it applies to our real world situation. / / I grew up with a single mother who made sure my brother and I were vaccinated no matter what. I grew up understanding that this is the way we wipe out terrible, disfiguring,

Over time a paradigm shift as occurred in the way people think about vaccinations in relation to the differences by race, poverty status and type of vaccines. When it comes to vaccination, there are a lot of unanswered questions and misconceptions. “Present day fears focus on metaphysical debates between vaccines, autism and…preventability of diseases for which vaccines has been developed, some parents have grown more fearful of the vaccines than the disease it was developed to protect against” (Matus, 2015). Parents should have the right to opt out of having their children vaccinated and still send their children to public school. However parents must understand there are consequences of their decision, such as putting healthy children at

Opel and Diekema (2012) say that the incidence of a disease or to develop a serious condition from the disease is not usually high enough to warrant a mandate for vaccination even though there is a general understanding that the risks of a disease outweighs the risks of the vaccine. I think that because there is a potential for harm to other children that no matter how high the incidence it should not be up to personal choice due to the harm principle. Opel and Diekema (2012) are still on the offence about mandating vaccines because they believe that it disrespects parental autonomy and their ability to make a decision for their child. However, the vaccine is there to protect

Parents think newborn are too fragile to be vaccinated because infant are still light weights, too many shots and health problem can occur with their babies. Actually, the newborn received antibodies from his mother that is temporary immunity, antibodies is cells that help stop infections and help body get well, but it starts to fade in the first month of his life. For that reason, parents should vaccinated for children. All of the vaccines that pediatrician recommend is safe for newborn. It is a greater chance of having vaccination, before children contact with adult who have threatened disease. Parents should not worry about infant are susceptible with vaccines, because they are sensitive so they get infectious disease easily than older baby.

Parents all across the United States have an issue with vaccinations for their children. Parents as of today do not have the option whether or not to immunize their children. These vaccinations are potentially harmful for children, but they also help and prevent life threatening illnesses. Parents should be allowed to choose to vaccinate their children because at times, the vaccine might harm the child, and because the parents simply just have right.

The mandatory vaccination laws are not strictly enforced but it is a change that should happen. It is not about the government imposing on a parent's choice to keep their child from being vaccinated. It is about the safety of that child, if they are negligently exposed to harmful diseases that their body is not prepared to fight off without the help of an immune booster. It is about the safety of those around a contagious, unvaccinated child. A child who has not received immunizations may catch a infectious disease and pass it onto another child while they are in school or to anyone, anywhere in public. Though immunizations provide a high level of preventative protection, they are not foolproof. Younger children especially, are more susceptible to becoming ill, even if they have had their shots. Why should another epidemic occur because someone has decided to risk their child's safety by refusing mandatory vaccines then exposing that child to the public? It is fine to have religious and philosophical reasons behind the rejection of immunizations but it is not fair to the well-being of others. Why should otherwise eradicated diseases come back because of the choice of many, based on lack of factual knowledge or research? An abundance of research has been done to prove that vaccinations do more good than