new YORK (Reuters Health) – the families of United States
who have autistic children earn about $18,000 less than
the parents of children with normal development. And a study
attributed the gap to the mothers do not work or do
fewer hours.
“The needs of autistic children reach a great
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amount of system services and many are questioning
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who will take over”, said David Mandell, associate director of the
Centre for the research of the autism of children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia.
“Mothers stop working to meet all these
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services for their children”, he added.
Centers for disease prevention and Control
United States (CDC for its acronym in English) estimated that the
disorders of autism, spectrum ranging from the syndrome
Asperger to severe mental retardation and disability
social, affecting one in every 110 children of United States.
More children receive one of these diagnoses and the
country is debating how to pay for extra services that
need these guys and they would cost $ 3.2 million
per patient.
Mandell team reviewed the results of the surveys
national homes held annually between 2002
and 2008; the surveys included 261 children autistic and more
64,000 without diseases.
After considering factors such as the age of the parents, the
ethnicity, education and health, the parents of autistic children
they were as likely to have work as children of
healthy. The same happened with the amount of hours of work and the
male income.
But between mothers did not happen in the same way. To
difference of the mothers of children without disabilities, the
mothers of the autistic children were 6 percent less
likely to be employed, working less than seven hours by
week and earned less than half of the annual income of the
other women.
In general, the families of the children autistic earned
$17.763 less per year.
The team could not ensure that the gap is due to have a
son with autism, but Mandell said the current system,
that families have to take their children to different
professionals.
“If these children receive adequate care, the burden not
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would be so high for the family”, he added.
Guillermo Montes, researcher at College St. John Fisher
in Rochester, New York, expressed the view that the study shows that the
families with autistic children make economic decisions
different to the rest.
“To putting their children, those decisions reduces the
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family income and so become more unstable”, said Montes, to
did not participate in the study.
“The State legislatures, employers and the Government
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Federal should talk to these families on how it could
help them better. “All aid should include the flexibility
labour and a wide variety of arrangements at work and the
care that are key in order to achieve the balance between the
work and family that works for autistic children, their
brothers and their parents”, added.
Source: Pediatrics, 19 March 2012
