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allaboutmusic: I was referring more to the "awkwardness" of having sex with someone while you were permanently attached to someone else's body... not necessarily about the genetics/mother/fathership of the resulting baby, etc. But yeah, I see your point.
As for all of you who say it's child abuse/stupid/etc... are you going to send money to this family to help pay for the amount of medical intervention it/they would need in order to have a long life? I mean, I'm all for people trying to help their children medically as much as possible, in any situation... however, that's easy to say from a Western society where we can actually somewhat afford these things. If they can hardly afford to eat from day to day, and if they are uneducated and truly believe that she is a goddess, well... then that's their reality. People make decisions based on their circumstances, not based on what people typing on the internet from wealthy Western countries would like them to do.
Yes, she will probably die young. She might have died young anyway, even with medical intervention. But at least this way, the parents/community will find some "meaning" in the whole thing, and not have their belief system ripped out from under them when it's all they have. See the book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," about a similar real-life situation involving a traditional Hmong family that was imported to the US, with an epileptic child. This is what happens when they don't bring in an anthropologist (or some other cultural broker/interpreter) to negotiate between extremely different systems of belief and medicine.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran
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