Adoption of mentally impaired babies

[rado84]

Today children with mental disabilities are keep separate from other kids, my niece works in the public school system here and she works in the class for the mentally disabled, our school systems have become more compassionate towards children with disabilities.
A good mother would also protect her child from such bullying, love is a powerful thing and shouldn't be taken lightly.
You say you wouldn't do that to your kid, I ask what kid, you would have relegated it to a trash can. You wouldn't have a child to love and protect, you would never know the joy of a child that happens to see the world through different eyes, loving eyes,trusting eyes.

It may sound callous to you but that's my opinion on the matter. And you can always make another one that won't be mentally or otherwise disabled.
As for the schools - ok, you'll enlist it in a school for disabled kids but you still can't protect it from everything and everyone. There will always be someone who'll bully the kid for not being normal.
May be the fact that I'll never have kids makes me so... callous on the matter but that's the way it is. Still, it doesn't mean I think any less of you. You asked for opinion and I posted mine. I always say what I think.

Just because you think a child like this would be a pain in the ass

I never said that, Deb! I only asked whether a mother's selfishness is worth spawning a kid that will always be finger pointed as "the different one" or even "the retarded one" and will basically be regarded by people only to mock at it. I doubt that there's a mother who wouldn't want her kid to be normal and not to be mocked at by other people.
Anyway, it seems you don't understand what I meant, so I'll leave this topic for another time.