I don't think I shared my niecphew xmas photo with y'all. It's damned cute: [link]
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Where is my menopause! I was promised a menopause!
Eh, it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Aw, hand-holding. If I had a scanner, I'd put up a picture of me at 18 months and my next older sister at about 3.
I don't think I shared my niecphew xmas photo with y'all. It's damned cute:
Special seasonal stripey cuteness!
Eh, it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Cramps vs. hot flashes . . . I'm willing to make the experiment.
Holy. Hannah.
In a case fraught with ethical questions, the parents of a severely mentally and physically disabled child have stunted her growth to keep their little "pillow angel" a manageable and more portable size.
In a case fraught with ethical questions, the parents of a severely mentally and physically disabled child have stunted her growth to keep their little "pillow angel" a manageable and more portable size.
I was just reading about that earlier. I didn't know that was possible, actually. Now I'm afreared crazy people will try to keep their little kids as little kids.
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I think that one makes perfect sense, actually. The child in question has a mental age of three months. Three months. The parents are (A) prevent her reaching sexual maturity (B) trying to keep her small enough (she's nine) that they can continue to care for her at home. If she grew to full adult height, they would be unlikely to be able to move her from bed to chair to car and so on easily.
The child's doctors and ethical review board signed off on the procedure.
Betsy speaks for me on this one. I appreciate that it's a bit of a mindboggler, opening up an ethical can of worms one hadn't had any notion might exist - but in this instance, it seems like a practical and compassionate approach to maintaining their ability to care for her at home as they all get older.