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Tuesday, December, 02, 2008

Should people with mental illnesses have children?

by  The Nightmare's Daughter
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Someone posted that question to which I answered, "NO."  What I meant was that generally most people who have difficulty taking care of themselves should not have children.  I stand firm on this one.  I apologize for the generalization because most of you who visit this site are in the very tinsy tiny majority of sufferers who live mostly functional productive lives.

 

However, if you have to ask for such advice, then, well, no, you should not have children unless you have some amazingly awesome talent to add to the gene pool.  In that case, have children and put them up for adoption.  People love to help babies, but when the babies grow up and become the product of screwed up childhoods they will find themselves all alone in the world.

 

If you can live with yourself for causing that, then just keep on populating.

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