Great question, frogdogdog.  We need to convince parents that as parents and guardians of their children's health, they have a responsibility to ALL children.  herd immunity is important to all those kids for whom some vaccines didn't take. Read Paul Offit's book on False Prophets, check out our special edition on vaccines, and push in your state to eliminate or block "philosophical exemption" laws to vaccines in order to protect your child.  Science is tough for some parents to understand, but they understand guilt.  The guilt of allowing a child to die of a vaccine preventable disease.  Parent to parent and doctor to parent is the best way to come to a satisfactory agreement.  good luck with this.  It is a national concern of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
 
Wayne Yankus, MD, FAAP
expert panelist: pediatrics