1. Your 5 year-old daughter is moderately retarded and you need special education for her.
2. Your 3 year-old daughter has cystic fibrosis.
3. Your newborn daughter is born blind.
4. Your 6 year-old is small for his age. He is being victimized by other children in his class.
5. You are accused of physically abusing your 4 year-old son.
6. You are the single parent of an 11 year-old boy. You work full time and your son comes home to an empty house. You are worried about the effects on him.
7. You are the parent of a 5 year-old girl and 10 year-old boy. You are getting married to a person who has a 7 year-old boy. You are worried about this "blended" family.
8. You suspect that a relative has sexually abused your 8 year-old daughter.
9. You have adopted a child of a different race. You have two other children, aged 2 and 9,
10. You and your spouse have been divorced for a year. You have a 7 year-old daughter together. Your spouse abducts your daughter.
11. Your 10 year-old daughter is obese.
12. Your 8 year-old son has been diagnosed with ADHD.
13. Your spouse died very recently in a car accident. You are left to raise two children (a boy, 9 and a girl, 4).
14. You are concerned because your 11 year-old son has been suspended from school numerous times for fighting. He just can't seem to get along with other children.
15. You have just given birth to a daughter, she suffers from Down Syndrome.
16. Your 9 year-old daughter has just begun menstruating and you are concerned about the effects of early puberty on her social development.
17. Your 10 year-old has a measured IQ of 155 and is considered to be gifted by his teacher.
18. Your 5 year-old tells you about some events at his/her daycare facility that make you think he/she may have been sexually abused.
19. Your 7 year-old son has cancer and is in need of a bone marrow transplant.
20. You are divorcing you spouse of 10-years and are worried about the effects on your 9-year old daughter and 7 year-old son.
21. You drank quite heavily during pregnancy (if you are a male, your wife drank heavily). Your 7 year-old child has fetal alcohol syndrome.
22. Your 8 year-old son is deaf.
23. Your 2 year-old son suffers a head injury in a serious automobile accident.
24. You are a single parent with two children, aged 1 and 4. You need daycare but can only afford $100.00 a week for both.
25. Your ex-spouse is gay. You have a 5 year-old son.
26. You and your spouse are 35 years-old. You have been trying to conceive for 2 years and have been unsuccessful. You desperately want a child so you look into infertility treatments.
27. Your five year-old daughter witnesses a theft at the local mall. The Crown prosecutor wants your daughter to testify against the thief at a trial.
28. Your 11 year-old son was caught with cocaine.
29. Your 6 year-old daughter is autistic.
30. Your 7 year old-son is dyslexic.
31. You are a single parent and HIV positive. You have a 5 year-old daughter.
32. You (or your wife if you are male) suffer a miscarriage.
33. You (or your girlfriend, if you are a male) are pregnant. You decide to have your child and remain single. (If you are a male, you decide to raise the child yourself). Assume that you are in the life circumstances that you are now ( in college, your age, etc....).
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Bill Goss
College
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--------Original Message-----Pleaseexplain the "lot in life" project. I never heard of it before. Also, if anyone has the list of lots you are requesting, please post it to the list.
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