Parents of autistic child may resist having more kids

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Parents of autistic child may resist having more kids

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/parents-autistic-child-may-resist-having-more-kids-220928967.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/hgd0aIV4MGCipsk94Phevg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/03b5544c2ff4e95a6f64f1b9d0310115a77dbcac.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A nine year-old girl participates in a program for autistic children in Paris on September 29, 2009" align="left" title="A nine year-old girl participates in a program for autistic children in Paris on September 29, 2009" border="0" /></a>Parents of a child who is diagnosed with autism appear to be about one-third less likely than other parents to have children in the future, a new study out Wednesday found. The research in JAMA Psychiatry, a journal of the American Medical Association, was described as the first to assess the influence of having a child with autism on the decision to have future offspring. &quot;While it has been postulated that parents who have a child with ASD may be reluctant to have more children, this is first time that anyone has analyzed the question with hard numbers,&quot; said study author Neil Risch, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Researchers did not ask the parents whether their autistic child had any bearing on their decision to have more kids or not.</p><br clear="all"/>

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