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Most of our contributions reflect the ideas and opinions of clinicians. This month we publish two papers looking at the attitudes of parents. (Relatively) high technology is represented by Polnay and colleagues from Nottingham, England, who studied how parents of children with cystic fibrosis viewed subsequent reproductive decisions, given the opportunity of antenatal screening. Their findings can be contrasted with information collected by Hazir and others from Islamabad, Pakistan on the beliefs of parents in a developing country regarding their children’s asthma.
Some of Polnay’s findings were disappointing: less than three quarters of respondents recalled being offered genetic counselling after the diagnosis was made and a third of those to whom it was offered did not take it up. Perhaps the most interesting finding, however, was that only half of those offered antenatal diagnosis accepted. The authors summarise the reasons and conclude that the variety of opinions held by families
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