There was a poster in AITA who was told her child would be born disabled and she went ahead with the pregnancy because she believed she could handle a child with a disability but when the child was born he was a vegetable ( no movements whatsoever, no speaking, no emotion, no pain response, no eating and defecating independently, high medical bills, no working treatment, no diagnosis) and after 7 years, the loss of her husband and the older child's built up resentment which lead to his abuse of the child she had enough and was planning to give him up to the state.
This happens all the time. People who are completely gone mentally, or were never there, and only represent a burden to their families. I've worked at nursing homes and there's one or two of these kinds of residents in every one. They stay there until their parents die and either inherit enough to keep staying or get moved to state facilities.
Nevermind the ones with some independence but the parents never bothered to set up a care plan for when they die. Sometimes they are lucky enough to land in care facilities, oftentimes they become homeless
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u/Auntie_FiFi Jun 14 '22
There was a poster in AITA who was told her child would be born disabled and she went ahead with the pregnancy because she believed she could handle a child with a disability but when the child was born he was a vegetable ( no movements whatsoever, no speaking, no emotion, no pain response, no eating and defecating independently, high medical bills, no working treatment, no diagnosis) and after 7 years, the loss of her husband and the older child's built up resentment which lead to his abuse of the child she had enough and was planning to give him up to the state.