Vaccinating, like all parenting decisions, is one that is made from a place of love and caring. A parent who chooses to vaccinate has their child's best interest at heart, as does a parent who chooses not to vaccinate.

Axar.az reports citing CNN.

With the rise of social media, vaccinations have become debated online, and -- emboldened by anonymity -- people engage in name-calling and shaming.

Not only is this unproductive and divisive, it simply isn't the right way for families to make decisions for the health of their children.

As a pediatrician, over the past few years, I have cared for families with different views on vaccinations. Most parents followed my recommendations to vaccinate and, with parent guilt on their faces, held down their children while we administered the vaccines. In these cases, everyone went home knowing that the kids were protected against serious infectious diseases.

But some families weren't as enthusiastic, and this is actually very common. In a survey of primary care pediatricians published in 2016, 93% reported being asked by parents to delay vaccines at least once in the previous month.

At the end of this spectrum are the families who refuse to vaccinate altogether. Here is my personal experience with two of these families, both of whom chose to vaccinate after years of pleas from their other doctors.

In the end, I believe that they made that decision because of our personal relationship. I was their pediatrician, and they trusted me.