(NYT) – Dayna Mooney chose alternative remedies over the recommendations of her son’s doctors. Was that her right as a parent or a threat to his care?

Two weeks earlier, a judge had issued a court order for Presten, who was 17, to be taken into emergency custody, and a caseworker drove him to Oklahoma Children’s OU Health. Presten had chronic myeloid leukemia, but he had not been seen by the hospital’s oncology team in more than a year. Mooney had been caring for him at home, using alternative treatments guided by an unlicensed practitioner. She didn’t trust the hospital to help her son after having tried conventional treatment there the previous year. The solutions she had found could, she thought, give Presten the life she wanted for him. (Read More)