What do you think about parents with disabilities having children?

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Do you think that it is right for parents that half a disability or disease to have children (because the children might get that disease or disability has well)?

I'm not saying that the parents are unfit because they aren't "normal", but I'm talking about ethically - is it responsible to bring another life into the world when there is a big chance that your child could have the same troubles and sickness as the parents did?

I don't know if this makes sense or not... but I tried. lol

Very interesting question.

I don't think a disability should preclude anybody from having a child just because they are disabled.

However, I think a person who will pass on their disability has an ethical and moral responsibility not to reproduce.

With so many unwanted children in the world they could do so much good just by adpoting and not only save a life but spare their biological offspring much potential pain and suffering.

Many disability are not hereditary so they are not passed on to there children.
Not all children of disable parents are carers

A number of people work either full or part time at least here in AUSTRALIA

In third world country the believe is that children take care of them when they get older. If I have 9 children 5 will die so I have 4 left.

Yes your answer sounded kind of bias but, I believe if a child is born out of love than nothing else even matters even if it is tay sachs its given them the chance to love and to see you and even with a disability would be fine because no one knows what willl happen, love is what helps the child and disability shouldnt be a factor,a family in poverty and a single parents its all right because love matters, most adopted children i know resent their parents for giving them away and not keeping them regardless of the situation, love is what help the child the most and deperiving a parent from the gift of parenthood because you they have a disability or doesnt fit societal norms is even more unethical.

I'll start with this fact I am disabled, from what is none of your business

sounds like you already have made your mind up and just want ammo to feed on........

Here is a hard fact.....when one gets married they have to pass a health exam..blood test etc..........

If your speaking of disabilities that are from birth ? chances are of what % will the baby have the same??? without a know type no answer.

Everyone has the right, moral or lawfully to be able to marry and raise a family.........

because you do not agree does not make it wrong for them to be happy too.

and My disability is not contagious, not from birth, not contracted either...

Well, I'm in this category because I have a disability that was acquired at age 40, from surviving a life-threatening illness, so I haven't lived life before 40 with it. I think doing a report on the ethics of raising a family is an admirable subject to be assigned, helping awareness of how seriously it should be taken. Any tough or risky obstacle in the way of birthing or raising a child is worthy of serious consideration, I think. I don't think it's a natural right. It's a chance. Something to decide. I think if you can only offer extreme poverty, can only offer a surrogate parent because you work 60 hours, will pass on something that dependably will mean another serious disability to endure for someone else, or know in your heart you don't want to parent a child, that your child will need things you cannot provide, and it's irresponsible to do it anyway. To have a child is not a right, to repeat myself, especially if you're doing it just to exercise what you think is a right, and use it as your own personal claim toi happiness. It depends too, on the disability itself, on whether you plan and expect to come out of extreme poverty, on whether you love somebody who'll love and raise that child, as long as you're healthy enough to birth it. I don't think addicted women should birth either, whether the drug is legal or illegal, for the chromosomes they saddle the baby with.

Also the same considerations if you're wealthy, comfortable, healthy and want a child because your friends are having one, or because you're thinking it will save a marriage, or for any other silly conclusion.

Yes I am sure that they can have children and they can be the best parents as we, who are not disable.

Most people with disabilities do not suffer with pain. And even those who do, still can have good quality lives. What you consider "trouble" others consider simply the life they have been given and cherish.

I know people with dwarfism who knew the chances of their child being a dwarf were 50%. They believed who better than them to raise a child who was proud and happy to be the person they were - dwarf or not.

I know a couple who were both Deaf who knew their child would be Deaf and they were relieved. A Deaf child they knew how to raise and bring into the life they loved, but a hearing child they weren't sure about. Would they fit into their life and be happy?

Living a life with a disability is not the end of the world. You might think so, but millions of people with disabilities live wonderful lives - I do, my son does, my niece does, and so do dozens upon dozens of friends we have.

ETA: I am and have always been a single parent. I have never worked full time until my child/children were teenagers - and then I have tried to nearly always be home when they get home from school. I think living in poverty as long as there is love is livable. But living a life where children rarely if ever see their parents in order to give them things that love will never replace is not what children want or need most.

I am a Person With Disabilities (PWD). I was born with various congenital physical Disabilities. I was also born with a rare inherited genetic syndrome. I have an only child that was born with Autism and Mental Retardation.

Just because I was born with various Disabilities should NOT preclude me in having a child of my own. PWDs have the right to become parents also IF they are capable of taking care of their children.

By the way, People With Disabilities (PWDs) ARE normal people who just so happen to have Disabilities.

If perfect people were the only ones allowed to reproduce we wouldn't have a population of 6 billion people plus on the earth

I draw the line at severe life shortening diseases. A parent who carrys the gene for tay sachs, I would not agree with them having biological children. On the flip side, genetic abnormalities like deafness, blindness, mobility impairments, dwarfism, or metabolic disorders certainly can seem 'severe' and a trouble in life to those who don't have them, and they can be inherited, but for those of us who have lived with it.. we don't usually see it that way.

I'd have loved my baby disabled like me, or completely able bodied... G-d decided it was not their time. I might have other children in the future and my (or my partner's) genetic disabilities will not be a consideration.

My parents are both very healthy and not disabled. Two of their three children have disabilities. I lost my leg to cancer at age 5 and my youngest brother is Autistic. I really think that people with out disabilities have just as many chances of having children will illness or disability.

When I'm in a situation where I'm ready to have kids I plan on it. There is a chance one of my children may have autism. but than again something like 1 in 150 children are born with Autism so chances are high anyway.

No parent can tell what will happen to their child. Just because a child is born " healthy" doesn't mean that nothing can happen down the road. I think this whole " ethical question" doesn't take in the quality of life a disabled person can have. It assumes that a disabled child is lacking something in life. When a child with a disability can be happy and healthy.

Hmm, while I do understand the perspective of where you're coming from, I believe that they should be allowed. This is the rule of nature, no one is born knowing they will have a disability or not, so I do not think they should *not* be allowed to have babies. Like you said, there is a chance that the genetics can be passed on and there is a chance it cannot be passed on. Even Mendel's theory cannot accomplish this; there will always be that 0.1% that something in the genetic series can be changed which can completely change the whole sequence and get different results. So yes, as much as it may be considered a 'burden' by some people in society, I believe they should have every right to want/have children. It's for them to decide, and no one else. About the issue of poverty, mind you, but that is a COMPLETELY different issue. If parents bring in their child knowing that they cannot support themselves then they should not, because they will be putting the child at risk knowing that they cannot afford it. However, in areas where its the disabled parents, they will always have the chance that their children will not be disabled.

Not all of them are genetic and I feel that if a woman and her husband/boyfriend (sometimes girlfriend) are capable of handling a child despite a disability they should be allowed to.

I'm not against sterilization of certain ones who aren't very capable or aren't very likely to become capable later on.

Also I've accepted the fact that due to my family's background in various disabilities ranging from depression to mental retardation, I may have a disabled child but that won't stop me some day from trying.

I think it's all in how that individual views their disability. If they did in fact live a miserable life, constantly dependent on non disabled people or constantly in pain or something else so horribly unpleasant, and they know their child will be... If they really hated growing up like that, then yes, of course it's irresponsible of them to have a kid who is going to go through the same... But not everyone with a disability lives like that.

I am blind, and though I'm only eighteen, I can honestly say that so far I have lived a pretty good life. I've received a great education. I've been able to participate in soccer, competitive fencing, music lessons, a school band, a band of my own, kayaking, horseback riding, art classes, camp, leadership seminars, building robots, model rockets, international travel programs such as People to People Student Ambassadors, science fairs, school dances, writing competitions, open mic nights, poetry readings, community events like fairs and festivals, lots of volunteering in the community, guitar lessons, bass guitar lessons, piano lessons, all county choir, trips to some great places all over the country and in others, halloween parties, trick or treating, christmas parties, easter egg hunts, boating trips, and a lot of other things that can be called precious childhood memories.

I am able to cook for myself, shop for myself, clean for myself, use a computer, program a computer (well, I'm still a beginner at that), do my laundry, do all other household chores, read, write, do math at the Pre Calculus level, build things, make things, get around my town on my own, get around towns I've never been to on my own, plan a trip on my own without taking a sighted assistant along, play games, go to college (I actually got to do Early Admission and start taking college Chemistry, the Chemistry lab that goes with it and Humanities during my senior year of high school) get a degree in any field I choose (I know blind chemists, teachers, engineers, computer programmers, lawyers, you name it.), get a job in any field that I choose and am willing to work at, maintain a household, pay bills, manage a checking account, read my mail, have a relationship, have an intimate relationship, use power tools, use the internet... the list goes on. Honestly, the better way to do this that would save a lot of writing time would be for someone to try to name things I can't do because of my blindness.

And I know from experience in part time childcare and from blind couples I have met that I will be able to raise a child from infancy to adulthood with no more assistance than any new parent needs. I just do all of this in different ways than the average person does... Not less efficiently at all.

I don't see blindness as a tragedy or something that makes life in general unpleasant. So I really see no reason why I shouldn't have a child knowing he or she may be blind.

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