Voluntary Communication Research Articles

Should Parental Involvement Be Required for Minors' Abortions?

Parental involvement is a widespread restriction on abortion that the Supreme Court upheld and many state legislatures are currently debating. In the states that have instituted such laws the result has been what was expected. Laws requiring either parental notification or parental consent have popular support. However the facts indicate that improved communication between teenagers and parents occurs in a climate where such communication is encouraged rather than mandated. A national survey of 375 family planning clinics clearly showed that parent communication was better among patients of clinics that encouraged voluntary communication than among those that required it. 54% of the clinics encouraged teenagers to involve their parents and 85% of the clinics had programs that directly involved parents. The facts also show that most teenagers already consult with their parents about their sexual decisions including abortion. 54% of unmarried minors who attend family planning clinics and 55% of those having abortions report that their parents know what they are going. The laws also contribute to the problem of late abortions in teenagers. Many of the laws have a judicial bypass procedure that allows the minor to petition the court for permission to have the abortion without notifying their parents. However this part of the law only creates bureaucratic excess. In a Massachusetts study of 477 cases between 1981085 10% of the minors appealing their parents refusal to give permission and the other 90% were doing so because they felt either they could not or preferred not to seek consent. Of the 477 minors 468 were evaluated as mature. Of the remaining 9 8 were given the bypass because the judge felt it was in their best interest. The average hearing took 12 minutes. In a Minnesota study of 3500 cases between 1985-90 only 9 petitions were denied. Nationally the average delay of the abortion is 5 days. With an already overburdened court system bypass petitions that only serve as a formality seem unnecessary.

Analyzing Voluntary CSR Communication: A Qualitative Study On “Fertial NEWS”

This paper aims to investigate Fertial’s CSR communication, to comprehend whether it is a voluntary adoption or it is due to external stakeholders’ influence. Unlike many empirical researches that have been carried out to address the matter of voluntary CSR communication, we have focused our research on analyzing data collected from Fertial’s “house journal”, which is called “Fertial News”. We have adopted a qualitative data analysis method for this research, in order to analyze codes assigned from the last ten issues of Fertial News. The results of this study show that most of Fertial CSR communications are considered as feedback to external stakeholders’ influence, in comparison to the amount of social information voluntarily communicated by Fertial.

Criminal Law and Procedure: Voluntary Communication to Grand Jury as Contempt

Criminal Law and Procedure: Voluntary Communication to Grand Jury as Contempt