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I think people that know they will have a severely mentally handicapped child should only have it if they have the means to take care of it themselves.
There was an article I read about years ago where a couple that had three kids taken away from them (it's not the same exact situation as the thread topic but close) They couldn't take care of them because of their mental handicap. Even after extensive training and classes they just couldn't get it and have had all three of their kids taken from them. At the time of the writing they thought she might be pregnant again because they don't use birth control so that will be kid number four taken away and there is a good chance any or all of these kids will have the same handicap as the parents.
Call me heartless, but I think people like this shouldn't be allowed to have kids. For that matter I think any parent should have to take classes before having kids because there are a lot of parents out there and they have no handicaps to speak of.
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