The advantages of offering a disabled child medicine or doing surgery by a medical doctor to prevent their growth
To appreciate why many doctors would take the stoppage of growth of the disabled children, you first need to understand the work that goes into the caring of the child. Most parents of this children are aging as their children are growing. It therefore becomes hard to take care of a child who is for example 95 pounds, needs to be moved from maybe a wheelchair to their bed or even be taken to the bathroom for short calls or long calls. The aging parents would therefore prefer to have a child that has their growth stopped than have to take care of them daily, which is tiresome and hard for them.
The medicine that will be offered will only stop their growth of height but not their cognitive abilities. The medicine, which is estrogen, that is offered in daily doses only stops the growth of the bones. When the medicine is offered at an early age, the growth of the bones are greatly reduced.
According to Philip Zeitler, who is the chairperson of a children hospital in Aurora, he considers the practice to be ethical. This is because they also provide
References
- Field, G (2016). Should Parents of Children With Severe Disabilities Be Allowed to Stop Their Growth?https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/should-parents-of-severely-disabled-children-be-allowed-to-stop-their-growth.html