I don’t want to rain on their bliss, but how can two retarded adults enter into a binding contract?
Could these folks buy property? Could they enter into an auto loan contract?
Just curious.
My question is, who will take care of their children?
My guess is the couple in this article ended up in group homes likely due to advanced age of their parents or their parents planning ahead. This case would have wide implications for all with disabilities and their right to marry. Marriages with disabilities of spouses involved can and do work. The added cost to the state for this couple would be nil.
If they were homosexual the group homes would be falling over themselves to set them up and the zero would call telling them how brave they are to be “so retatded and yet...”[snark]
It does bring up the point: who actually married them and should they have done so? They are obviously incapable of living on their own, so how is this contract valid?
Fact is that they are married. They should not be denied what they can enjoy of each other. It should not take too many $$ resources to accomodate them.
As a taxpayer (so presumably supporting these people), my position is that I should not have to fork out more money to fund anything beyond the basics. In particular, they should not be having children that I then have to pay for. (This goes double for welfare recipients.)
That said, it seems that there should be some measure of basic human compassion that would allow them to live together. I would think that with all the social services workers we have, the could come up with some solution to this.
If they can get past this little obstacle, I suspect they both will live happily ever after together........good for them!
Bump
Weird.
They cannot function on their own in society yet, they were allowed to enter into a contract and “consensual” relationship?
Either they require care or they do not.
Would it be possible for the parents of the couple to get them an apartment or something?
I agree. Surely, there is a group home somewhere that will take this couple.
Disabled adults can lead very lonely lives, so the quality of their lives could greatly improve if they have one another.
May God bless them.
She is now 86. She was forceps damaged in a hard delivery at a New Mexico road camp in the 20s
Slightly retarded..like touched.
She had boyfriends but nothing beyond playfulness
they were all Downs boys and died pretty young...
these girls are very vulnerable sexually...to say the least
we help take care of her, she's been a joy and keeps on ticking..she is one of only 3-4 older relatives I know have
i’m ambivalent on this
There is. Their parents can have them move in with them.
And this from the same liberal, government types who are encouraging young teens to do it?
This frosts me. If they want to get married and their parents don't have a problem with it, it's not anybody's business. Who else are they going to deem unfit to marry and what is the cut off for mental disabilities and the consent to have sex?
There is a solution, he can be get a sex change operation. Somehow I doubt that they are prohibiting same sex roommates from having sex at night.
So many of the posts on this thread have to do with the question: “what shall the State do about this?”
Hello?
FRiends, this is a matter best handled by friends, family, and neighborhoods.
F(orget) the State.