British Report: Needs Of Families Are Not Met
By Dave
Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express
November 6, 2006
YORK,
ENGLAND--Economic and social needs are not being met for families that have
children with disabilities, according to a report in last Saturday's British
Medical Journal.
Social policy experts from the University of York claim that such
families have higher than average levels of stress -- and that about 55 percent
of them live in poverty -- but that the government has failed to address those
needs.
The researchers suggested that National Health Service primary care
trusts could play an important role by better assessing the family's needs, and
linking those families with local resources.
The day after the report was published, doctors at the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists suggested that doctors should be allowed to
deliberately kill babies with disabilities. In a story reported in the Times of
London, the RCOG reasoned that having the euthanasia option available could
spare families the economic and social stress associated with raising such a
child.
Related:
"Most families of disabled children 'living in poverty'"
(Yorkshire Post)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/06/red/1107d.htm
"Abstract
-- Families with disabled children" (British Medical Journal)
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/333/7575/928
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