Hello there.

I don't know about the United States, but we work with children as research "subjects" - as horrible as the word sounds, (and more, in fact they help us design and conduct research) and there are no such laws in Sri Lanka to our knowledge about children participating in research. Who do you get permission from anyway? The universities? So far, all depends on the high ethical and moral standards followed by the researchers, and strict adherence to child participation principles set down by a credible body. I didn't know there were further legal issues to this? Then all researchers working with children are flouting a lot of laws, bec no one gets any specific permission from anyone!

Nobody's doing children any favours by leaving them out becuase of legal issues, often non-exixtent ones:)

Anyway, it may be a decision taken for other reasons, not legal factors?

Tehani
