Birth Defects

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guilty in many of these and similar situations, feeling as if they are abnormal.
However most can learn to walk, talk, dress themselves and eat. Special work
programs are available that can help the child reach their education level. Also
these work programs help takes off the many stresses facing parents. They no
longer have to go it alone.
Tay Sachs disease is another selective genetic disorder that destroyed
nerve cells. This causes mental retardation, loss of muscle control and death.
Children who inherit an abnormal gene from both parents will inherit the decease.
The carrier parents have one normal gene and one defective gene. Carriers of
Tay-Sachs disease have no symptoms. " If two carriers have children, each child
has twenty-five percent chance of inheriting the defective gene (both parents)"
(Strom 174). These children are unable to produce an enzyme that breaks down
fats in the brain and nerve cells. The cells become clogged with fat and prevent
the cells ...

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on the child, but how ? If they both take
off work who will pay for all the doctor bills. If one takes off work who should
it be? Physical breakdowns are a major component facing parents as the deal with
all this added pressure. Their life will consist living around hospitals and
live in nurses which many might get to help cope with the child. Their sex life
changes. Most of the time parents feel dirty or diseased them selves causing
intimacy to stop and from this, parents soon grow farther apart. Their are no
winners in this battle, especially with no cure available.
Sickle cell anemia, a genetic disorder in which malformed red blood cells
interfere with the supply of ...

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