Johan Bester (Medicine) has published an article in the American Journal of Bioethics. This article reviews the implications of ethical arguments surrounding the practice of intentionally leaving children unvaccinated to chicken pox to benefit older people. The article concludes that it is wrong to withhold what is morally owed children purely to benefit others; decisions about children should always take the interests of the child as the starting point. This leads us to reconsider more generally whether it is just to withhold vaccinations from children in order to further the rights of adults.