Originally Posted by PillPeddler

This may be a stupid question but my exam is coming up and needed some help:

What do you do in the situation where a 13 year old comes to your office for birth control? what obligations do you have to the parents and the patient? And obviously what is the step 1 medically appropriate answer?

and if you could elaborate in regards to how this answer may change if the patient is 16 and then subsequently 18

Any help would be great, thanks in advance....