Julia Thompson wrote:
Brother John wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
1) Not all people are suitable for parenthood. It's not easy. I
have respect for people who decide that they're not going to be as
good at parenting as their children would deserve.
2) If you decide you want a child, you'd better be prepared for the
possibility of it having special needs, because a number of them do,
and if you can't handle it, it's going to suck big-time for that child.
If I were a child, I would rather have special needs that are not met
than to be aborted. I suppose there are worse things than being
aborted, but from the child's perspective I can't think of many. --JWR
The real travesty is the parents who decide they can't cope with the
child's special needs any longer, and attempt (sometimes successfully)
to murder them. I can name 3 children offhand that were the victims
of murder or attempted murder since May 1 of this year, where there
was some attempt at justification given because of the child's special
needs. That is incredibly WRONG.
I agree completely. Unfortunately human beings are natural born killers
as we have been demonstrating so well for many thousands of years.
Other animals don't do this, not to the extent that we do. We not only
kill others of our own kind in great numbers and have always done so
since long before we obtained current technology, we even kill ourselves
in great numbers. What other animal commits suicide to the extent that
we do? And I'm talking about suicide in the narrow sense, not in the
sense that some people commit suicide by indulging addictions such as
alcohol and drugs.
John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Since we are all children of the same Heavenly Father,
we really are all brothers and sisters." --Uncle Bob
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All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR
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