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I am truly sorry for your situation. I wish you all the best with being able to get the support needed, push science and open research forward and potentially save your child (and many more human beings) from this immense suffering.

However...

> Birth defects affect one in every 33 babies (about 3% of all babies) born in the United States each year. [1]

Why do we keep having children? Every life comes with a death sentence and immense amount of suffering. This child will have more than average.

Any rational or self-proclaimed rational human would quickly decide against these odds. Did you not know them? How do you decide to have children having this probability of impact (if people actually decide or we are just biological machines following our animalistic trend).

Overpopulation is the same as obesity crisis - lack of control.

But don't take it from me, here is why RMS won't have children [2]

Apart from all that, having a child way, way overshadows any other effort on climate change [3]. Deciding not to have JUST ONE child and you will "deserve" multiple transatlantic travels, cars, eating meat, not recycling and more...

If you can afford it and can controll yourself at all - stop having children.

For the couple(s) that already crossed that treshold - again, all the best. For the couple(s) that haven't and know this information and then you suffer - it's on you.

Flag me all you want because I wrote that in anger. But get the message around somehow.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/data.html [2] https://stallman.org/articles/children.html [3] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541

[hombre_fatal]

> If you can afford it and can controll yourself at all - stop having children.

If you are smart, empathetic, and can raise a human who is curious and respects others, you should do it. The future depends on people like you and your offspring.

If you can afford a child and are reading this forum, you are in a demographic among the most capable of raising children with the most access to knowledge, resources, and opportunity.

You're barking up the wrong tree.