Article published on Apr 30, 2024
We have recently adopted my sister’s two girls, four and six years of age. They are a bit busy, but they have become wonderful siblings for our ten-year-old daughter. My sister has serious mental health issues; these girls were placed in a foster home briefly before we adopted them. We know that they didn’t receive...
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Article published on Feb 5, 2020
I got measles when I was sixteen. One of my classmates went to Europe, and brought the virus back to school. I was never vaccinated, and got very sick. My parents didn’t believe in vaccination; they thought it was unnecessary. Now, I am the mother of two children, one and three years of age. They...
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Article published on Apr 25, 2017
Our seventeen-year-old son is going to university in Nova Scotia this fall. When he was young, I heard that measles vaccine could cause autism in children. I was really scared, and didn’t allow him to receive the second dose of MMR vaccine. He didn’t get most vaccines afterwards because I was worried about the idea...
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