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How come there's fewer handicapped kids around these days?

  • 22-05-2012 02:42PM
    #1
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    I brought the kids to the playground last night, one of the mothers had a mildly handicapped child who needed assistance but was really enjoying himself.
    What struck me is how few handicapped children I see nowadays in comparison to growing up in the late 70's, early 80's.
    Are they less visible due to special needs schooling taking them out of the general populace ?.
    Are parents more embarrassed than their previous generations to be seen in public with them ?.
    Are there less children being born with abnormalities due to better diets & supplements taken by the mothers ?.

    Maybe it's just my perception but I took a double take last night as it's been that long since I noticed a child with a handicap.
    Has anyone else noticed this ?.


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  • #2
    wobbles-grogan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭wobbles-grogan


    Less No use of those horrible tongs during birth maybe?


  • #3
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Are they less visible due to special needs schooling taking them out of the general populace ?.

    This, although I would have worded it less sinisterly.


  • #4
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    I brought the kids to the playground last night, one of the mothers had a mildly handicapped child who needed assistance but was really enjoying himself.
    What struck me is how few handicapped children I see nowadays in comparison to growing up in the late 70's, early 80's.
    Are they less visible due to special needs schooling taking them out of the general populace ?.
    Are parents more embarrassed than their previous generations to be seen in public with them ?.
    Are there less children being born with abnormalities due to better diets & supplements taken by the mothers ?.

    Maybe it's just my perception but I took a double take last night as it's been that long since I noticed a child with a handicap.
    Has anyone else noticed this ?.

    with better medical intervention some disabled babies can be cured while still in the womb... Also women are alot more aware of what to eat and what supplements they need to take while pregnant than they were in the 70's which can prevent things such as spinabifida. Also polio was more common during the 70's than it is today.


  • #5
    stupidusername
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    Can't say I noticed them one way or another. but I suppose if there is a noticeable difference, it'd be because they're going to special needs schools. Can't imagine it's anything else.


  • #6
    Holly Spicy Hoe
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Holly Spicy Hoe


    wobbles-grogan wrote: »
    Less No use of those horrible thongs during birth maybe?

    why would anyone wear a thong during birth :confused:


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  • #7
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    A lot of cases were a result of women having children later in life, contraception can now prevent that. A lot of these pregnancies probably end quietly in abortion too.


  • #8
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    bluewolf wrote: »
    why would anyone wear a thong during birth :confused:

    To strain the handicap out obviously.


  • #9
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    bluewolf wrote: »
    why would anyone wear a thong during birth :confused:

    To look sexy for the doc;)


  • #10
    wobbles-grogan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭wobbles-grogan


    bluewolf wrote: »
    why would anyone wear a thong during birth :confused:

    Fixed it! Stupid spelling...


  • #11
    skinny90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭skinny90


    stupidusername wrote: »
    Can't say I noticed them one way or another. but I suppose if there is a noticeable difference, it'd be because they're going to special needs schools. Can't imagine it's anything else.
    That's why,my mother worked in cregg house for 30 odd years an now works in the school,they have families moving to Sligo because of the facilities/care etc


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  • #12
    Holly Spicy Hoe
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Holly Spicy Hoe


    wobbles-grogan wrote: »
    Fixed it! Stupid spelling...

    Oh sorry I wasn't correcting it, I just had no idea what you were talking about
    lol
    off to wash my eyes out with bleach


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OP obviously hasn't been to Louth in a while.


  • #14
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    There seems to be a lot more
    Mental problems these days though. When I worked at my last job I saw lots of disabled kids. They're still out there


  • #15
    PlainP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 714 ✭✭✭PlainP


    You never see handicapped travellers???

    Whats up with that, are they immune to having special needs children??


  • #16
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    There seems to be a lot more
    Mental problems these days though. When I worked at my last job I saw lots of disabled kids. They're still out there

    Well bring em in for fcuk sake !!!


  • #17
    rKossi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 85 ✭✭rKossi


    PlainP wrote: »
    You never see handicapped travellers???

    Whats up with that, are they immune to having special needs children??

    Me and my m8s were talking about that the other week :)
    Wtf is up with that I think they are immune


  • #18
    mikemac1
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    handicapped, that's just not on OP

    Differently abled ;)


  • #19
    dsmythy
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    PlainP wrote: »
    You never see handicapped travellers???

    Whats up with that, are they immune to having special needs children??

    They take the Spartan approach to children*

    *barefaced lie


  • #20
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78722834&postcount=211

    :rolleyes:


  • #21
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Amniocentesis


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  • #22
    PlainP
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    dsmythy wrote: »
    They take the Spartan approach to children*

    *barefaced lie

    I did hear some awful rumours on what they do with such children but would not post them here as rumours are just vile and usually not true........


  • #23
    Babybuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    rKossi wrote: »
    Me and my m8s were talking about that the other week :)
    Wtf is up with that I think they are immune
    I worked with plenty of traveller kids with disabilities.


  • #24
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    It's an interesting point the OP brings up. Maybe it just has to do with better health care, improved screening services, more responsible family planning ...:confused::confused:

    It reminds me of my earliest visits to the Soviet Union in the early 1970s, only 25 years after the "Great Patriotic War". Given the scale of the carnage during that conflict, you'd have expected to see severely handicapped people everywhere. But there were none, and wheelchair access was non-existent as well. It soon became clear that handicapped people were kept well out of sight in institutions or their homes. Go figure.:rolleyes:


  • #25
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    handicapped, that's just not on OP

    Differently abled ;)

    You can do nothing these days without upsetting some PC mob.
    I always thought special needs was demeaning too.


  • #26
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    Go to any public library on a weekday morning and there's loads of them knocking about. :cool:


  • #27
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    2 words: Sweat Shops.


  • #28
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I read the title "how come there are fewer kidnapped kids these days"

    Im broken.


  • #29
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    smash wrote: »
    2 words: Sweat Shops.

    No, they're far too slow for that.


  • #30
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    I don't think that there are less or even more. I think a lot of the people that would have been regarded as 'handicapped' either physically or mentally back in the 70s are now mainstreamed and therefore 'attract less attention'.


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  • #31
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,273 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    What struck me is how few handicapped children I see nowadays in comparison to growing up in the late 30's, early 40's.

    There's your answer...


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