The value of a human being, and more of your comments

Readers are sounding off in the comments all over this Parenting Special Needs blog, but it can be hard to find and respond to those opinions when they're on posts past this main page. To give you an easy view of the outrage and the outreach, here are some of the things your fellow readers have been saying in the past few weeks. To join the conversation, click on the link to get to the post, then click on "comments" to read the entire comment and add your own two cents.

• "Who gets to decide the value of another human being? I think there is value in just being here. Everyone is making some kind of contribution, the parents' job is to try to see that and appreciate it." -- Susie on "Should doctors be allowed to kill severely disabled babies?"
• "If her parents and siblings will be able to care for her lovingly themselves if she remains small, then it is the best thing for her in this particular instance." -- Cynthia on "Should parents halt a disabled child's growth?"
• "Although I understand that much of what our children do is uncontrollable, I find it very distructive to use it as an excuse. Our children need to learn the differences between right and wrong regardless of diagnosis." -- Leah on "Are these shirts offensive?"
• "Although I can think of a few people that need to wear a shirt like that as a warning to everyone else,I don't think that it is helpful for people to wear an excuse on their shirts." -- Carolyn on "Are these shirts offensive?"
• "School food is bad enough -- why extend it to breakfast also?" -- Cynthia on "Breakfast at school: Brainstorm or bother?"