Theirs was a home where poor general health could not have been a factor. Those of us who were around in the days when measles was common recall days and weeks lying in a darkened room and frightened parents fussing over us. Growing up in the Fifties, I remember the girl who disappeared from school to spend the rest of her life immobile, breathing via an iron lung. We don't have polio in this country any more. Children no longer die from diphtheria.
More research needs to be done into possible side-effects.
Parents should be offered, as Peter Hitchens says, three effective, separate injections if they are concerned about the triple dose of MMR and doctors should not be paid by numbers so that we don't feel we're being bamboozled for financial gain. Nonetheless, difficult though the decision may be, we should be grateful we no longer live in those bad old days when merely being a child was a risky business. If I were in their place, I'd remove my boys from the London Oratory. How my heart sank at the news that it may be possible to reverse the menopause through surgical intervention. More pressure to look young and lovely.