My Question of the Day: Caring for a child with special needs can be overwhelming in so many ways—emotionally, physically and financially. If you were allowed to do so, would you put your medically-fragile child in a nursing home?

My 2 Cents: I chose to pose this question after a filmmaker, Narcel Reedus, asked me for some pointers on how to customize his blog.

Narcel is making a documentary film about children who live in nursing homes. What’s interesting is that federal money pays for this. According to his research, Narcel found out that there are over 4,000 children living in nursing homes across the United States. Some of these children have frequent visits from family and others do not. It’s very similar to our elders being warehoused in nursing homes, but we’re talking about children who haven’t had an opportunity to experience life.

Please visit Narcel’s site at Not Home Documentary to see the project he’s putting together to enlighten us about this issue.

Narcel is also profiled in my Bragging on Bloggers category this week.

Would I put my medically-fragile child in a nursing home? Goodness, I hope I never feel like it’s my only option to get him/her the care he/she needs, but I’d like to believe I never would. Reality, however, might dictate otherwise, so I’m not passing judgment on any parent who has made the choice to do so.

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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JoshDamage oh wow that’s a messed up question. As heart wrenching as it would be to care for that child I don’t think I would do it.

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