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I don't know. I don't think I could or would want to raise a disabled baby..
How un-compassionate.
Disabled people are just as important as able people. In fact, disabled people MAKE us thankful for the things we do have and can do. They teach us things about life. They teach us patience and understanding. They keep us grounded.
Sometimes parents of severaly disabled babies are full of false hope. They do everything to keep that baby alive - at any cost - using any life-sustaining method. The doctors tell them prognosis is grim and suggest a DNR order, but the parents refuse. The baby can't see, can't hear, can't blink, can't clear his own secretions, is on a feeding tube, is not developing at all in any way - yet the parents say, We will get a miracle and my baby will recover and be fine. It's so sad, and the parents are delusional, but the parents are the ones with the final say. Period.
(The health insurance companies only wish they had the final say! We know how that would go.)
Disabled people are just as important as able people. In fact, disabled people MAKE us thankful for the things we do have and can do. They teach us things about life. They teach us patience and understanding. They keep us grounded.
Sometimes parents of severaly disabled babies are full of false hope. They do everything to keep that baby alive - at any cost - using any life-sustaining method. The doctors tell them prognosis is grim and suggest a DNR order, but the parents refuse. The baby can't see, can't hear, can't blink, can't clear his own secretions, is on a feeding tube, is not developing at all in any way - yet the parents say, We will get a miracle and my baby will recover and be fine. It's so sad, and the parents are delusional, but the parents are the ones with the final say. Period.
(The health insurance companies only wish they had the final say! We know how that would go.)
IF they are on life support that's different, but as I understood this it was also talking about babies that are severely disabled but can still breathe.
I am totally opposed to this. The article is not talking about letting these babies go by not using extrodinary measures (life support machines, etc.) to keep them alive. The article specifically said "active euthanasia". There is absolutely no way that I could support that.
Disabled people are just as important as able people. In fact, disabled people MAKE us thankful for the things we do have and can do. They teach us things about life. They teach us patience and understanding. They keep us grounded.
I've never felt a disabled person taught me anything. And I believe this topic is all about our opinions. My opinion is that |I would never want to have a handicapped kid.
Disabled people don't teach me anything except what kind of kids I wouldn't want to have.
I agree I wouldn't WANT to have a disabled child...but I would love him or her the same I would any other child. That comment sounds very cruel and cold.
I still don't know where I stand. I think more on the "hell no" side!
I keep wondering...What would a parent say to others?
Would it sound something like "I mercy killed my baby at birth because she was disabled," or "I put my little angel down at birth because she was disabled."
I just can't see how it sounds "ok" outloud!
Adults can't even make the decision to die peacefully and with dignity if they are in horrible pain or have disease in which there is no cure and death is DEFINITE!
Yet, some want to make the choice for a little baby? I think the choice might be for the parents NOT for the children.
I've worked with disabled adults and children. I'm talking "can't walk drooling all over people. I've seen the happiness on the faces of some of these kids. Yes they might not be able to ride bikes or eat cake or have sleepovers or enjoy love and sex with a mate, but they don't know that. You can't miss what you don't know! So if you commit your life as a parent to helping your disabled baby/child to see and feel as much happiness this world has to offer those little angels they CAN be happy.
I still don't know though. This is only my first outloud thought.
But if the kid is happy, would the parent be? Knowing that kid will never leave their house or care, they will never be able to leave?
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