But talk to the parents of most of these kids and it s not their disabilities that they worry about so much, if they re not life threatening.
Kids have an amazing capacity to cope, and treatments are constantly improving.
What often troubles parents even more is whether they can afford to pay for the special needs of their kids, and how they can provide for their kids needs when they themselves are no longer around. The tax code was not written with their needs in mind. And public programs aimed at helping kids can sometimes backfire on them and their parents. Take a simple thing like funding the child s college education, for example. For the ordinary child, the parents or grandparents might want to put money aside in a trust.