Social emotional development includes listening, speaking, complimenting, helping, asking for help, persuading others, defining and expressing feelings, asking for permission, sharing, defending rights, decision-making, greeting, thanking, recognizing problems and finding their solutions, and initiating and maintaining positive social relationships (Csoti 2009).
Macedo reminds us that a train of legal entitlements - hospital visitation rights, decision-making authority in the event of incapacitation, and the right to jointly own property - accompany same-sex marriage.
In her recent HBR article "Transient Advantage," Rita Gunther McGrath describes how "fast and roughly right decision making will replace deliberations that are precise and slow". While most leaders couldn't agree more, the challenge is how?
The Success Sequence, unlike the Disaster Sequence, is entirely dependent on the right decision making of leaders and managers [43].
A right to health can include a number of components including: access to health services, resources necessary to achieve health, medical self-determination, the ability to resist conditions or policies that endanger health, health information and transparency, informed consent, and even a right to decision-making and accountability for health programs and policies [ 13].
Third, an appropriate institutional network to enforce the recognition of these rights in decision-making processes should be constituted.
Consumers are encouraged to be active participants, by exercising their rights in decision-making related to their services.
Ms. Friedman contended that fathers are often treated as second-class citizens by the courts when it comes to rights and decision-making with respect to their children.
But whether hospitals and health care authorities in this country would recognize them as family members is an open question, even with President Obama's order last week extending hospital visiting rights and decision-making authority to same-sex partners.
