I will agree that a careful reading of what you initially wrote doesn't yield the word "burden". But the idea that having a developmentally disabled child is a misguided one is just as horrible. Indeed, your rebuttal of my remark paints a picture of nothing except a bleak landscape.

God that's a cynical viewpoint! How about the fact that it doesn't treat the mentally retarded as a burden and that they have dignity and worth beyond their I.Q.?

Finally! Someone is writing about the unfairness in the broadcast industry! For too long now, women have been held to standards men just blow by without a thought. As a man, I'm outraged how women are not judged by the content of their character, but by their looks and how they can be accessories to men. …