Some people with learning difficulties are inappropriately effectionate and therefore are more vulnerable to mis appropriate relationships, not always able to evaluate the real worth of a friend/ relationship.
2006-10-12 07:18:35 · 19 answers · asked by biggi 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
its a very good question and a very hard one to answer :o)
2006-10-12 12:11:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. People WITHOUT learning difficulties are "inappropriately affectionate" whatever that means. And a lot of "normal" people cannot "evaluate the real worth of a friend/relationship" -- there's no use assuming that people with learning differences will have a more difficult time with that! Honestly, this is where prejudice and stereotyping and fear come in and start **** like eugenics from the 1930s-1950s.
2006-10-12 08:16:07 · answer #2 · answered by Melissa B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having worked with people with learning disabilities this is a difficult issue. I think the important issue we need to explore is not contraception but the care which is received by these people. If they are looked after appropriately and help and support is offered unwanted pregnancy should not be a concern. However, People with learning disabilities do have sexual feelings the same as anyone else - if the relationship is between two people with similar problems can this then be inappropriate? Its only inappropriate when someone who does not have such problems abuses their position that it becomes inappropriate.
2006-10-12 07:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by candy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my oldest daughter is schizophrenic and has an IQ of 70 she was always overly affectionate with older guys from the time she was 11 i explained the facts of life to her and told her right from wrong she is a very beautiful blond and guys were always trying. she told me at age 14 that she almost did with a guy at a party and she thought she might have if he had been a little more good looking. at this time i told her i thought it was a good idea for her to get on birth control because she was not sure if she could control herself ultimately though it was her decision. we need to respect personal rights. even though she was only 14 i would not have forced her. She is now 26 and has a husband and two beautiful healthy children. Her husband is a wonderful guy. She is a good mother and her schizophrenia is under control but she is still mentally ill. so why choose for her she did pretty good on her own.
2006-10-12 07:40:12 · answer #4 · answered by jusme 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, if there is a risk of inappropriate affection then that risk needs to be appropriately managed.
Would you like it if we sterilised you because we judged you unable to evaluate the real worth of a relationship. Oh, and where would you stop? what IQ level would you pick? Who gets to pick who gets sterilised?
2006-10-12 07:29:21 · answer #5 · answered by garfet 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Story time: My mother used to attend AA meetings with a woman who was seriously slow. This woman was pregnant at the time we knew her, and gave birth to her ELEVENTH child. Her first four babies were adopted by her only sibling and his wife. After that they couldn't afford any more kids so her kids were put into the foster care system. Seven children added to the already over crowded foster care system.
Because of this woman I firmly believe that people incapable of being parents should be sterilized.
2006-10-12 07:26:39 · answer #6 · answered by apeystar 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
But then who are others to value their relationships for them?All of us take chances when we develop relationships and I would think that for society to interfere takes away basic human rihghts.If the guardian or parent of someone who had l.d felt it appropriate for them to be sterilised or on o.c.p then thats a different matter .They know the individual
2006-10-12 09:16:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They most definitely should be restricted from having children. However, I feel this way for a different reason that you do. I think they shouldn't be able to have biological children not because of relationship difficulties, but because of the risk they run of passing down bad genes. They should be able to adopt children because many of them would be ok for that, but it would be selfish and cruel of them to have children of their own. I speak from experience, as my parents never should have had biological children, yet they had six of us.
2006-10-12 07:27:22 · answer #8 · answered by Martin523 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they should be given contraceptive - not be sterilised. It would be worse for someone to have a baby they could not look after and have it taken away from them - that would be cruel
2006-10-12 07:26:07 · answer #9 · answered by Ally 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a very difficult question to answer, i myself work with adults with mld and sld's and some parents have taken the decision for their daughters to have contraception. We have over time had some young adults pregnant, and they then take the decision over what to do. I am all for them to have their children if needed, and as long there is adequate support available,
The decison will always lie wtih the person 'loco parentis' for some of those young adults, and how are we to know if we are making the right decision
2006-10-12 07:24:03 · answer #10 · answered by redsticks34 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
A guy with a little moustache in Germany used to like that idea and a few rather right wing Americans did it in the 1930's.
I think it's rather frowned upon now!!
I believe it's called eugenics.
2006-10-12 07:22:20 · answer #11 · answered by iusedtolooklikemyavatar 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋