A generation of stolen children
Aug. 1st, 2005 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyI saw a link today to this: http://buggydoo.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-am-very-sad-today.html
which really struck home with me. I followed her link to this:
http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/news/rfk.pdf
Go read it. Really, read the whole thing.
It just makes me so sick and so sad. I have three children who fall into what they're describing as the "Thimerosal Generation". I've kept two of them safe. I wish I'd known more before the first one was born.
which really struck home with me. I followed her link to this:
http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/news/rfk.pdf
Go read it. Really, read the whole thing.
It just makes me so sick and so sad. I have three children who fall into what they're describing as the "Thimerosal Generation". I've kept two of them safe. I wish I'd known more before the first one was born.
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Re: I've wondered...
Date: 2005-08-03 04:13 am (UTC)I agree with you about the sewer pipes in general, but he's spot on with polio and smallpox. Peg Kerr (local author, your kids will probably go ape for her stuff when they get elementary-school-age) has a wonderful story Small Steps about her recovery from childhood polio.
It's one of those cases where, yes, I'm risking my daughter a bit for the common good, because the common good (herd immunity to polio) is so compelling and the cost/benefit to her as well, despite our family history, is sound.
YMMV, of course.
Re: I've wondered...
Date: 2005-08-03 04:26 am (UTC)