Girl's Growth Purposely Stunted

An article on MSNBC's website described how a mother and a father purposely stunted the development of their daughter in order to make it easier for them to care for her. She was diagnosed shortly after childbirth with severe brain damage and this has left her in a constant infant state, which she will likely be in for the rest of her life.

Her parents decided to stunt her growth because as she grows bigger without developing mentally she becomes harder to care for. Basically, she would just a stronger, bigger baby, which would be harder to care for.

I thought this article was interesting because it brings up several ethical issues up for debate. Should the parents be allowed to do this? Should doctors even consider to do this?

Many of us chose this particular major with the idea of working in some wort of medical field to help people but then things like this pop up and it makes me wonder whether this sort of treatment is truly helping people and how it may be abused in the future. Is it really a doctor's job to purposely suppress a child's growth? It just seemed really like the opposite of what I always imagined being a doctor or some sort of medical researcher would do.

Link To Article On MSNBC
Link To Archived Paper On Stunting Child Growth
(Referenced in MSNBC Article)