NEW YORK — I remember my friend's face when he told me that his daughter had been born with a severe mental disability.
"It was as if somebody had pointed a gun to my head," he told me.
For as long as they have been known, mental disabilities have been the cause of profound unhappiness in parents of children born with them as well as in the children themselves.
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