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The Poynter Center Seminar series is intended to foster community and intellectual stimulation among members of the IU community who want to maintain an ongoing relationship with the Poynter Center and each other. This paper outlines pediatric care providers' responsibilities when there might be an occasion to act paternalistically. I argue that professionals might act paternalistically in morally unacceptable ways by presuming incompetence when treating older adolescents or by infantalizing precompetent children. Social factors are relevant insofar as children are normally part of a family, and parents are typically assigned primary authority to make decisions for their progeny. Focusing on acts that resemble paternalism, I argue that it is sometimes permissible for professionals to override parental authority in medical decision making.