Would you let your child(ren) play with a child with aids?

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  • nickiturner04
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM

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  Quoting luvmyparties:
  
  

  OP have you ever heard of Ryan White? You should look that up and see how he was treated. Would you really want to treat another child like that?

  omg i read his book in high school. i cried and cried... & then i checked it out several more times before i graduated!
  

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  • elleinad
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM

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  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  My daughter will be starting kindergarten in August, and there will be a little boy in her class who is HIV positive, and I don't know how to handle it, the fear may be irrational, and far fetched, it doesn't make me uneducated, it just makes me a mother who wants to protect her daughter.
  

  Quoting LiquidAmethyst:
  
  

  i agree with you OP.  say whatever you want IDGAF

  why are you asking though?

  
  

  Oh. My. God. That poor little boy.
  

  "...Only the doing of justice is a good enough excuse to be born."

   

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  • luvmyparties
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM

• There is a difference in protecting your daughter and teaching your daughter to be intolerant of someone different. In that sense you are not protecting her at all
  

  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  My daughter will be starting kindergarten in August, and there will be a little boy in her class who is HIV positive, and I don't know how to handle it, the fear may be irrational, and far fetched, it doesn't make me uneducated, it just makes me a mother who wants to protect her daughter.
  

  Quoting LiquidAmethyst:
  
  

  i agree with you OP.  say whatever you want IDGAF

  why are you asking though?

  
  

  
  

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  • heartstolen08
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM

• I would never keep my child from making  what could be a life long, wonderful friend. I would talk to my child about it and educate them, but I would absolutely let my son play with a child with hiv/aids, my uncle has had it for 20 some years and I would never keep my son away from him!

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  • lilberber
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM

•  Then put her in another school for crying out loud!
  

  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  My daughter will be starting kindergarten in August, and there will be a little boy in her class who is HIV positive, and I don't know how to handle it, the fear may be irrational, and far fetched, it doesn't make me uneducated, it just makes me a mother who wants to protect her daughter.
  

  Quoting LiquidAmethyst:
  
  

  i agree with you OP.  say whatever you want IDGAF

  why are you asking though?

  
  

  
  

  

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  • LiquidAmethyst
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM

• wow, i don't know what to tell you about that!  i totally get where you are coming from though.  good luck
  

  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  My daughter will be starting kindergarten in August, and there will be a little boy in her class who is HIV positive, and I don't know how to handle it, the fear may be irrational, and far fetched, it doesn't make me uneducated, it just makes me a mother who wants to protect her daughter.
  

  Quoting LiquidAmethyst:
  
  

  i agree with you OP.  say whatever you want IDGAF

  why are you asking though?

  
  

  
  

  

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  • jonesyj08
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM

• So you would allienate a child just because of something that wasn't their fault? People say kids are cruel...I say the parents are just as bad. Eventually a child that is taught to allienate people will go on to do it in adulthood "Oh, you have AIDS. You don't deserve to have friends." "Oh, you're diabetic..." "Oh, you're this..." "Oh, you're that" and this will go on and on and on. So thank you so very much to contributing to discrimination. How kind of you.

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  • frndlyfn
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM

• Have you talked to school on how to handle the subject of a different child being in your daughters class?  At that age most children who have hiv/aids are taught how to prevent the blood to blood transmission.  The school may be able to tell you how to be extra cautious without ostracizing the poor child  nor preventing your child to possibly make friends with someone who isnt like her.  Perhaps find out if you can call their parents so you can learn more on the effects with children.
  

  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  My daughter will be starting kindergarten in August, and there will be a little boy in her class who is HIV positive, and I don't know how to handle it, the fear may be irrational, and far fetched, it doesn't make me uneducated, it just makes me a mother who wants to protect her daughter.
  

  Quoting LiquidAmethyst:
  
  

  i agree with you OP.  say whatever you want IDGAF

  why are you asking though?

  
  

  
  

  

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  • nickiturner04
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM

• you might as well home school her if you're so scared about her getting something...

  ... it's a shame. i don't think you're just uneducated. i think you're one of the rudest people i've seen on here.

  do you think you're going to protect her from EVERY little thing? this is the united states for crying out loud! go ahead and put her in a plastic bubble to keep her away from anything that will harm her!
  

  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  My daughter will be starting kindergarten in August, and there will be a little boy in her class who is HIV positive, and I don't know how to handle it, the fear may be irrational, and far fetched, it doesn't make me uneducated, it just makes me a mother who wants to protect her daughter.
  

  Quoting LiquidAmethyst:
  
  

  i agree with you OP.  say whatever you want IDGAF

  why are you asking though?

  
  

  
  

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  • audrey1960
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:27 PM

• Why not, if you are an educated person you wouldn't have a problem with it.  Educate yourselves if you said no.  That way you'll know how aids is transmitted.  I they are mixing body fluids and blood that how can they caught it from playing. Hugging a person with aids won't kill you. 

  Audrey

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