Greetings from the hot'n'humid US midwest.
The New York Times (which styles itself 'the US newspaper of record')
collates five mothers' experiences with raising "chronically ill"
(actually, impaired) children.
Get your stereotypes here! Of the kids, one's Deaf, one has epilepsy,
one has several learning disabilities, one "can't talk" but "spells
out words at a 2nd grade level", one can't walk.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/26/health/26VOIC.html?pagewanted=all">
www.nytimes.com/2001/06/26/health/26VOIC.html?pagewanted=all</a>
Sum total of message, as I see it, is "burden burden burden."
Unsurprisingly, these women report little to no tangible support from
husbands, community, medicos, 'social services.'
Why am I posting this? Because reaching the possible-parent
population before their children are impaired (that is, before
they're born or their lives Take a Turn) seems imperative. Right now,
parents are important carriers of the 'disability' virus.
I would appreciate citations or breadcrumbs to researchers working on
"how to prevent parents from being infected, or transmitting the
virus to their kids?"
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Jesse the K -- 43.048244N 89.44562W -- [log in to unmask]
An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
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