Comments on: Columnist: ‘Sadly, most people with a learning disability should not have children’ http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/22/columnist-sadly-learning-disability-children-25829/ Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Ivy http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/22/columnist-sadly-learning-disability-children-25829/comment-page-1/#comment-5089 Ivy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:51 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=25829#comment-5089 ........something tells me it's not just the english who feel this way. i'm sure most people feel that way towards people with LDs. ……..something tells me it’s not just the english who feel this way. i’m sure most people feel that way towards people with LDs.

]]> By: Laurie http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/22/columnist-sadly-learning-disability-children-25829/comment-page-1/#comment-5087 Laurie Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:37:54 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=25829#comment-5087 Boy, the English are stacking up to prove that they really are cold. To suggest that most people with learning disabilities shouldn't even marry is really a sorry state of affairs. Does she know how many learning disabilities are out there? She has lumped them all into one category and her opinion seems to be that none should even marry (and certainly shouldn't have children). Also, I am aware of several couples with Down syndrome that have married and with the help of their families are doing great. They say that it would be no different if they were single as to the amount of help they would need. Since loneliness is often a cruel side effect of a disability in our society, having a permanent mate sounds wonderful, just as it is wonderful for me (a typical person). Finally, it seems the English are giving us food for thought about government run health care. They deny lots of treatments and care based on the cost to the government. I'm a Democrat and think we definitely need to revamp our health care, but I do think we have to be very careful and discuss the pros and cons of different provisions until we know them so well, we are sick of talking about them. (I don't care which side of the aisle good ideas and good analyses come from.) Boy, the English are stacking up to prove that they really are cold. To suggest that most people with learning disabilities shouldn’t even marry is really a sorry state of affairs. Does she know how many learning disabilities are out there? She has lumped them all into one category and her opinion seems to be that none should even marry (and certainly shouldn’t have children).

Also, I am aware of several couples with Down syndrome that have married and with the help of their families are doing great. They say that it would be no different if they were single as to the amount of help they would need. Since loneliness is often a cruel side effect of a disability in our society, having a permanent mate sounds wonderful, just as it is wonderful for me (a typical person).

Finally, it seems the English are giving us food for thought about government run health care. They deny lots of treatments and care based on the cost to the government. I’m a Democrat and think we definitely need to revamp our health care, but I do think we have to be very careful and discuss the pros and cons of different provisions until we know them so well, we are sick of talking about them. (I don’t care which side of the aisle good ideas and good analyses come from.)

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