Father of Autistic Child Why He's Getting a Vasectomy

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Father of Child With Autism Explains Why He's Getting a Vasectomy

Family decides to have fairly typical number of children.... Not because of autism. Dad is irritated by ABC misconstruing his tweets. Dad plans to liveblog vasectomy. Dad needs to familiarize himself with concept of TMI.

Parents decide family complete. Select inexpensive, usually reversible - once done no-hassle - form of birth control.

Not much of a headline.

That being said, vasectomies are awesome - at least from the point of view of someone who is the sexual partner of someone who has had one and is happy with his decision.

And I agree they should be talked about more.

I have no idea why anyone decided to write about this or why it was posted. People make whatever decisions they make about family size and there are a lot of factors that go into it: Like whether you have the time and money and energy to take care of another child. I don't see how this is different from how most families decide this.

I don't see what's wrong with a father getting a vasectomy when he and his wife decide they don't want any more children, it's actually a sensible thing as it means that the woman doesn't have to worry about what happens when birth control fails for her. I even think men who know they don't want to father a child who get a vasectomy are also doing the right thing, since they don't have to worry about the possibility of getting a woman pregnant.

I don't doubt that is the point, but it is so poorly done that it boggles the mind.

You know what I think is funny??

When I got pregnant with K (back in 2000), my understanding of the available literature (there wasn't much) was that an autistic person's chances of having any given offspring turn out to be autistic were somewhere between 50% and 80%. I just sort of assumed my kids would have it and planned my parenting strategies (a 23-year-old only child planning parenting strategies-- LMFAO!! !) accordingly.

Well, we plan, God laughs. We've since discovered the odds are a lot lower.

That said, I also don't see why this is news. MY fertility certainly isn't newsworthy (and I don't want it to be). I don't want anyone making my fertility decisions for me; I don't presume to make (or criticize) those decisions for other people.

It must have been a slow day, and the reporter discovered something she could twist and manipulate to generate hits. I guess THAT'S the real headline????

What a stupid article. I've known someone who got a vasectomy after only having girls. He and his wife decided they should stop "stop trying for the boy."

I suppose that means that having daughters is a hardship. You know...all those hormones. The drama. The shoes. The clothes. The weddings...I can't understand why ANYONE would allow themselves to have more than one!

What I find is odd is who in the heck would tweet that they are having a vasectomy? And why? Granted, I don't tweet, I don't blog, and I don't facebook, but it seems to me that somethings are just not to be shared with the masses.