Wombat wrote:
I have two children and thank God they were both normal and healthy. I don't think I am strong enough to handle a big problem.
As a child I remember the couple across the road. They had a "baby" that was older than I was.
It was the size of a baby but it had a head as big as a basketball, and that was when it was ten years old.
It lived to be 17 years old before it died.
They must have gone through a thousand hells. It is a wonder that they didn't divorce. As it was they never had any other children.
So tell me, how "noble" was it that those poor people kept a mindless "thing" alive for 17 years?
You speak of the child/young adult in such of a manner; most people would assume your talking about an a lifeless item.
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