Looking for Dr. that respects our decision about not vaccinating (daycare, milk)
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If any one of us had gone through what they've been through, we would also be questioning and trying to find the answer to what happened.
Or not.
BT, DT, have the T-shirt. (FTR, dd likes this one: ThinkGeek :: Enough Social Interaction )
Generally, I find it more useful to consider where my daughter is going and what she's capable of-- and what she needs to get there-- than to try and affix blame. If that sounds harsh...well, maybe it is. I don't have a lot of patience with the concept that my kid is so horribly disabled she'd be better off on a respirator.
I hadn't thought of it as a Constitutional issue. Of course it is.
So now, do public schools have the right to require immunizations at all?
Mmm...don't know. One would assume somebody would have challenged it by now, but I can't quote case law on it.
We homeschool at this point; the vaccination rate seems to run about half in our particular area. A lot of people delay or partially vax-- or maybe I just notice that because that's come up in conversation a lot recently.
I hadn't thought of it as a Constitutional issue. Of course it is.
So now, do public schools have the right to require immunizations at all?
I'd say that if schools have the right to require certain clothing and hairstyles, then they can also "require" vaccinations. I put it in quotes because in 48 states, there is a religious or philosophical exemption available. In all 50 states, medical exemptions are available. So the requirement is really not a requirement... more like a strong suggestion.
Mmm...don't know. One would assume somebody would have challenged it by now, but I can't quote case law on it.
We homeschool at this point; the vaccination rate seems to run about half in our particular area. A lot of people delay or partially vax-- or maybe I just notice that because that's come up in conversation a lot recently.
I think that a LOT of parents adjust the recommended vaccine schedule... they might not discuss it much in public because of the inevitable "but you're killing your babies!" reactions. If one parent mentions it, though, then it seems that a lot of others jump in and say "yeah, we delayed the MMR until the kids were five," or "we don't do hepatitis or chickenpox vaccines," or "we didn't start vaccinating until the kids were two." Of course, this could be mostly a homeschool thing... if you "buck authority" by not sending your kids to school, you may be more likely to buck authority by not following your doctor's recommendations to the letter.
I always find it odd that someone without medical training will make this one decision to go against what doctors reccomend, but seem to follow everything else they say.
Mmm...don't know. One would assume somebody would have challenged it by now, but I can't quote case law on it.
We homeschool at this point; the vaccination rate seems to run about half in our particular area. A lot of people delay or partially vax-- or maybe I just notice that because that's come up in conversation a lot recently.
THAT is SCARY. If memory serves me correctly, it only takes 5% of children being unvaccinated to risk a disease running through a community.
Personally, if anti vaccination people want to risk their kids that's their right but they risk everyone elses kids too. Unfortunately, vaccinations are not 100%. When you add the natural failure rate to those who choose not to vaccinate, it's easy to get to a high enough percentage of the population not vaccinated to bring back child hood diseases rarely heard of these days BECAUSE of vaccinations.
The question you have to ask yourself is would it be ok if every parent did as I do. If all parents stopped vaccinating, we'd see children dying of childhood illnesses we rarely hear of again. Is that what we want?
I don't believe the claims that vaccinations cause autism. I think the research suggesting it's auto immune due to keeping our children too clean has more merit than anything suggesting that vaccinations are to blame (One theory is that we keep our children so clean their immune systems are reacting to things they should not which is resulting in increases in conditions like asthma and possibly autism. Their immune systems are designed for raw foods and growing up on the farm where they're exercised regularly.)
I always find it odd that someone without medical training will make this one decision to go against what doctors reccomend, but seem to follow everything else they say.
Becomming a parent doesn't make you an expert in anything. It just means the plumbing works.
THAT is SCARY. If memory serves me correctly, it only takes 5% of children being unvaccinated to risk a disease running through a community.
The question you have to ask yourself is would it be ok if every parent did as I do. If all parents stopped vaccinating, we'd see children dying of childhood illnesses we rarely hear of again. Is that what we want?
I guess I was unclear. When I said "around half", I wasn't referring to the entire metro area. It's a big place (a couple million at last count, even allowing for an inordinate number of retirees that's a lot of kids). I've no idea what others are vaccinating with, or when, or why, or for how many cookies. I was referring to our little corner of the homeschooling community. I rather doubt, given the sheer number of publicly schooled children in the area, that we (meaning either my family or the homeschool community) are representative of anything in particular.
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Originally Posted by Ivorytickler
I don't believe the claims that vaccinations cause autism. I think the research suggesting it's auto immune due to keeping our children too clean has more merit than anything suggesting that vaccinations are to blame (One theory is that we keep our children so clean their immune systems are reacting to things they should not which is resulting in increases in conditions like asthma and possibly autism. Their immune systems are designed for raw foods and growing up on the farm where they're exercised regularly.)
I'm still leaning primarily toward the Geek Theory, if I think about it at all. A friend and I have joked that we'll arrange a marriage between her daughter and my son (both have autistic siblings) and breed software engineers.
Becomming a parent doesn't make you an expert in anything. It just means the plumbing works.
Not necessarily even that.
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