Poll: You Discover Your Child Will Be...
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I completely agree, but it's one of the misconceptions about the mentally handicapped I find is pretty rampant. Like raising a handicapped child is something one can "grin and bear" for a few years. Sort of like the people posting adoption, they seem to have a distorted view on how adoption works in practice. It's nice to think that you could simply put a child like that up for adoption, and a magical celebrity like Brangelina will come and give it the life you couldn't, but it's generally not the case.Wadders said:
I just talked this over with my wife and we agreed on abortion in this case. We usually don't have a problem with the practice in the first place, but this seems like one of those obvious answers. If placed up for adoption, they almost certainly would eventually be abused, possibly sexually, for their inability to tell on their attacker. Even if they weren't, they almost certainly would never be adopted and, as someone else pointed out, they can only stay in the foster care system for so long before they're required to try to make it on their own or are committed to some sort of care institution. This means they will either be homeless or a burden upon not just us or themselves, but the whole of society. To try to raise this child or offer it for adoption would harm other members of society and commit the child to a massively substandard existence.
From a moral point of view, it would be wrong of us not to take action to prevent this from occurring. We (my wife and I) have no right to harm society like that.
From a moral point of view, it would be wrong of us not to take action to prevent this from occurring. We (my wife and I) have no right to harm society like that.
To be truthful, I'd want it aborted. It would be better for everyone, the child included. No person, if they posessed the mental faculties, would want to live like that.
Plus, to be perfectly honest, I think I would consider it too much of a burden.
Plus, to be perfectly honest, I think I would consider it too much of a burden.
I would be in favor of abortion.
It's hardly different than pulling the plug on a coma patient. The rest of their lives are going to be horrible. They won't contribute to society or to anyone else. They'll be a complete burden to everyone around them.
Worse, in cavemen days, said child would likely be killed in the wild in a much worse method.
Should so many people would not live their productive lives so one may exist. Some people don't even want their HEALTHY babies and abort them.
It's hardly different than pulling the plug on a coma patient. The rest of their lives are going to be horrible. They won't contribute to society or to anyone else. They'll be a complete burden to everyone around them.
Worse, in cavemen days, said child would likely be killed in the wild in a much worse method.
Should so many people would not live their productive lives so one may exist. Some people don't even want their HEALTHY babies and abort them.
I can't imagine only being 1 year old mentally for 60 some years I'd rather be dead and not be a burden so I would do the same for the child.
I shall raise him despite what cultural standards say. And then, once he is an adult, he will approach King Leonidas and boast as to how I raised him to be a true Spartan, only to be turned away for his deformity. Mad with rage, he will throw down his sword and spear and curse my name.
I have to ask though, what kind of child would it be? It'd never truly grow up, and there would be no sense of satisfaction from raising it. You'd simply be stuck raising it till you die, and afterward, it'd be a drain on those related to you who'd be forced to care for them.ottenni said:
There is a difference between being alive (existing) and having a life. What that child would have is the former and never the later. What is the point of existing without life, without thought, without being able to do?
Abortion, so that the person's existince is not a living hell.
Abortion, so that the person's existince is not a living hell.
I've looked after enough sick old people in my day job to glean a few things. I'm totally in favour of euthanasia now whereas before I had no real opinion on it.
OT and slightly related, it depends how much in pain the child is. If it's going to suffer the year or two of its life, abortion. People put down animals if they suffer, humans should have the same option, even pre-natally.
OT and slightly related, it depends how much in pain the child is. If it's going to suffer the year or two of its life, abortion. People put down animals if they suffer, humans should have the same option, even pre-natally.
WEIRD I was talking about this this very eve!
Had the child something like Down's, I;d have to think about it, but to know that my child would be born with an affliction like this one would lead me to abort it. I wouldn't physically or emotionally give the child the support it needed, and I know it.
Some might be capable, and were I in the right position to devote my time to the child, I might, but it's a long shot.
My aunt actually has a son who is now nearly 24 who is retarded to such a stage that my nana has been enlisted to help her mind him.
Had the child something like Down's, I;d have to think about it, but to know that my child would be born with an affliction like this one would lead me to abort it. I wouldn't physically or emotionally give the child the support it needed, and I know it.
Some might be capable, and were I in the right position to devote my time to the child, I might, but it's a long shot.
My aunt actually has a son who is now nearly 24 who is retarded to such a stage that my nana has been enlisted to help her mind him.
If that's good enough for you, then that's fine. However, I have to ask, you wouldn't feel bad about the drain it would place on others after you died?ottenni said:
I would put it up for adoption, unless my partner would prefer to have it aborted. If she wanted it aborted, then go ahead. However, if she doesn't, I wouldn't be able to take care of it. I would be a terrible parent, especially at my age. And I'm sure [small](or hope)[/small] the child will go into good hands. Better than me at least.