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If you were tested and knew BEFORE having children that you have a 75% chance of having a child with Autism will you still have children?

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Yes, I would. I know it would be hard but I would still want to have my own children. I still want to have more kids despite one having mild autism.

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Supposed it is a severe case of Autism though? You are talking about a life long daily struggle with ONE child. Having multiple children like that can't be justified if you ALREADY know it will be like this.

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But that's just the point. There is *no* way to know this. The only thing they can find is a predisposition and even that is inaccurate sometimes since there are families with their first 3 kids with autism and have others who are not autistic or families having "typical" kids and at the end having one with autism. Hence it is called "genetic lottery".

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Taking the emotional baggage out of the equation I would say no way. Again that is a typical male logic first then ponder why the emotional need is felling empty.

I still think I would be very temped to adopt not a new born but an older child. I know you are still in the same risk as they might have the same issue or even bigger ones that are life threatening. As far a last child having issue and not the first that can be age and diet related as well.

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At this moment I cannot say that I will be encouraged to have children that I knew will be autistic. I can only say yes if there is sufficient for them on arrival: home with big grounds, support groups, etc. Adoption will be more tempting.

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Some statistics concerning having multiple children with autism:

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If the possibilities of having a second child with autism is so low, how come there are so many families with 2, 3 or more kids with autism? Could be after all an undeniable genetic factor?

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I hate to think it but I have pondered that myself on occasion as I know some families that it runs fro every generation. Some of the families I wrote it off to drinking when pregnant but not for all. Might also be a case of you have two certain genes coming together to create the autism gene.