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• hearing children, deaf parents (Score:1)

  by stimps (2840)

  The mother has perhaps chosen her words poorly. What happens in a huge number of cases where deaf parents have hearing children is that the children get absorbed into hearing society, and leave their parents behind. This, of course, happens with all children and parents, but is markedly different with the deaf vs. hearing communities. Deaf society is smaller, just by nature of having far fewer members. There are lots of things deaf people can do, but there are way more things out there for hearing peopl
  • Re:hearing children, deaf parents (Score:1)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    I see what you mean.

    But I worry that this is only one step away from any other language minority having their children modified so that they can only learn their parents' home language, and not the societal language, lest they become different from their parents.
    • Re:hearing children, deaf parents (Score:2)

      by hfb (74)

      but do parents have children to be different or to be a likeness of themselves? I suspect it's most often the latter. Family is your tribe and language is a major part of belonging both psychologically as well as socially.
      • Re:hearing children, deaf parents (Score:1)

        by TorgoX (1933) <sburkeNO@SPAMcpan.org> on 2002.04.10 22:34 (#6855) Homepage Journal

        language is a major part of belonging

        Yeah, but who in their right mind would want to know only one language?

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        • Re:hearing children, deaf parents (Score:2)

          by hfb (74)

          Ask most of English-only speaking America :)