How is a mentally retarded person supposed to raise a child? -
12-12-2008, 04:49 PM
I have noticed that some people are dead-set against the idea of prohibiting mentally retarded people from reproducing. However, I really wonder how a mentally retarded person can be expected to adequately raise a child. After all, mentally retarded adults are mentally still children themselves, so how can they be expected to adequately raise other children? Also, can a mentally retarded adult be expected to have the wisdom or emotional maturity that is needed to help their children through the various crises many of us go through when we're young? And if mentally retarded parents have intellectually normal children, how can their children get the intellectual stimulation they need?
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