Re: New Study Backs Parent Age-Autism Link Maureen

[Guest guest]

You make a good point. We can't seem to find out what the rate

difference is between the general pop five years ago and today, much

less get reliable information by race or nationality, but I've heard

similar things. Young parents tend to have less resources, it's true.

Being born poor in the U.S. might have one tiny advantage of mom not

having enough $ to pay the co-pay on a well-child visit and keep up

with the shots. And being poor equates to race statistically. For

people immigrating legally to the U.S. from elsewhere-- like Somalia--

the story seems to be different. They have to get shot up with a

series of full-hg shots before coming here, then vaccinated all over

again on arrival. So it may only be U.S. born poor who have some tiny

silver lining in terms of lower autism rates-- if that's even true.

Who knows if this is so since, again, we can't get reliable numbers.

Still, there might be some truth to the body-burden-build-up issue.

So hard to know what to believe.

>

> I want to apologize in advance if someone has already pointed this

out.

> When I think about older parents I think about parents, like

myself, who

> tried to have a child for years and went to extraordinary efforts

(invitro).

> A child is always an amazing gift, but I believe that older parents

are, on

> average, more financially stable and can be more obsessed about

their

> newborn. So what is the vaccination rate on young vs. older

parents? Isn't

> it very possible that older parents may be more compliant with the

vaccine

> schedule that the CDC has laid out.

>

>

>

> I don't think this is a minor point because I have heard that the

rate of

> autism in Hispanic children is much less then that of Caucasian

children,

> and that the rate among military families is much higher than that

of non

> military families. Is the reason that Hispanics (on average) are

in a lower

> economic category and thus more likely to wait to vaccinate until

school

> requires it? Are military families more likely to vaccinate

because they

> have excellent health coverage?

>

> Just my thoughts,

>

> Maureen

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