Choosing deafness
Dialectes Have you heard, Archivistes, that a couple in America wanted, and arranged to have, a deaf child?1
Archivistes Why and how did they do that?
Dialectes Well, they are a lesbian couple who are both deaf and they wanted children through donor insemination. As sperm donor they chose a deaf friend who could trace deafness back through five generations of his family. Their first child, a girl born 5 years ago, is deaf and now they have a boy who also is deaf.
Archivistes As so often, …
