Editing Pediatrics (section)

=== Modern advancements ===
According to the Subcommittee of Clinical Ethics of the Argentinean Pediatric Society (SAP), children can understand moral feelings at all ages and can make reasonable decisions based on those feelings. Therefore, children and teens are deemed capable of making their own health decisions when they reach the age of 13. Recently, studies made on the decision-making of children have challenged that age to be 12.<ref name=":3" />

Technology has made several modern advancements that contribute to the future development of child autonomy, for example, unsolicited findings (U.F.s) of pediatric exome sequencing. They are findings based on pediatric exome sequencing that explain in greater detail the intellectual disability of a child and predict to what extent it will affect the child in the future. Genetic and intellectual disorders in children make them incapable of making moral decisions, so people look down upon this kind of testing because the child's future autonomy is at risk. It is still in question whether parents should request these types of testing for their children. Medical experts argue that it could endanger the autonomous rights the child will possess in the future. However, the parents contend that [[genetic testing]] would benefit the welfare of their children since it would allow them to make better health care decisions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Dondorp|first1=W.|last2=Bolt|first2=I.|last3=Tibben|first3=A.|last4=De Wert|first4=G.|last5=Van Summeren|first5=M.|date=2021-09-01|title='We Should View Him as an Individual': The Role of the Child's Future Autonomy in Shared Decision-Making About Unsolicited Findings in Pediatric Exome Sequencing|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-020-00425-7|journal=Health Care Analysis|language=en|volume=29|issue=3|pages=249–261|doi=10.1007/s10728-020-00425-7|pmid=33389383|s2cid=230112761|issn=1573-3394}}</ref> Exome sequencing for children and the decision to grant parents the right to request them is a medically ethical issue that many still debate today.