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Originally Posted by Taf
I personally know 2 families where the decision was openly made to have more children well after the mothers' 40th birthdays in the hope that one or more would be disabled.
And sadly one of the children was born severely handicapped.
The families' backgrounds would not really surprise most people.
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The cases I'm aware of are due to first cousins having children together. Due to their cultural background the stigma of a defective child means they want to push the problem onto the authorities instead of caring for them. They have further attempts to see if they can produce a healthy child. It's not uncommon for these families to have more than one severely handicapped children with the tax payer footing the bills. Instead of making the practice illegal, the government and local authorities keep paying the money and bury their head in the sand for fear of being branded racists.