If Your Child Were to Come to You and Tell You He/She Has HIV, Would You Support and Love, or Abandon?

I am curious about the basic nature of people, and predisposed fears concerning the HIV infection. I know of someone who had HIV and his mother threw away everything that he ate and drank out of when he came to visit her..people have a lot of fear about HIV. Would your fear of contracting the disease be greater than the love for your child? If you are a Christian, would you make assumptions concerning the way your child contracted HIV and according to those assumptions, turn your child away?

ga realtor, you would be surprised at what kind of people are in this world.
I don't see how anyone with a heart could turn someone away either..I have seen it happen though.

Love and support.

Turning him/her away would be disgusting! Support and love is the way to go!

Love of course... denying him/her would be like denying a part of me... methinks

what kind of person would abandon their child because they have an infectious disease?

I would try to take appropriate precautions (whatever those might be) but I would by no means abandon him/her or turn him/her away. That would be the time my child needed me the most.

i would love and support any one with HIV not just my own flesh and blood but friends to at the end of the day it does not matter how they got it they are still the same people they were before they had the illness people only fear what they do not understand or know

Love and support absolutely, that when they would need it most. I would make no assumptions, but would be willing to listen to him or her talk about finding out and the fears associated with the coping process.

im a christian and if my child told me that they have aids i would still support them no matter what.

i would say i would freak for a while but it is your child you made it so support it if you abandon it, the child would think he/she is not loved and possible commit suicide
love this kid for who he/she is = human
not by the color of the child's skin or the HIV disease

A parent does not abandon a sick child even if this stupid child caused its own illness.
There are 3 ways to get aids/hiv. They are blood products/tranfusions, sex, doing intervenous drugs.
A Christian person would show Christian charity when dealing with a person with AIDS or HIV like Mother Teresa did in INDIA when dealing with the sick and dying.
Jesus taught us to be charitable and if we are not then we are failing him and ourselves.

Sex is natural, thus I couldn't disown my child for contracting something by doing something natural, no matter what my religion. Much like I wouldn't turn away my child if he/she became amputated or wheelchair bound.
I would love him/her until death, mine or theirs.

This persons Mother is a idiot!!As a Loving Mother I would get all the education about HIV as I possible could. I would always love and support any of my children through out any sickness. But education would be the key for any loving relationship!!

First, I would not *assume* how they contracted anything without discussing it with them.

Second, I know how it is transmitted (not saliva) and would not behave irrationally towards their food etc.

Third, Christians CAN behave in a loving manner without agreeing with someone's behavior, especially their relatives'. It's called "love the sinner; hate the sin". Think, for instance, of Mother Teresa and her nuns lovingly caring for anyone without regard to their religion or past.

Yes, I would love (verb) my child.

You are a parent from the time your kid is born to the day they die. No matter how your kid becomes sick a parent never turns their back on their kid. Would Jesus turn his back to someone in need? No,and neither should you ever turn your back on your children no matter what. His mom does not even deserve the title "mother".

I would support my child always. People who respond otherwise are just ignorant to the facts about the disease, granted it is scary, but with a little bit of research on the parents' part they could ease their fears and learn to love and support their child through what is probably one of the most terrifying times in their life. They need to be supported and loved UNCONDITIONALLY not abandoned in their time of need.

I really don't fear death that much myself. I would like to think I would treat anyone with love and respect that is sick with any disease.
I have a fatal heart disease myself. While not contagious, It has killed both my father at 49 tears old. My brother at 50 years old. I am now 51 years old with the same problems they had. I look forward to trading this old body for a new one in heaven. But hey, that's just me.

Obviously not abandon and give support and love. Only thing though is thinking about where I lacked in bringing up and ask forgiveness from God about my carelessness. HIV is not an air borne disease it only can transfer with a fluid transfer, either sex or deep oral kiss or placing a bleeding wound on the bleeding wound of the HIV patient. Utensils can be used as they do not cause disease transfer unless patient has spitted in them and you happen to mix that in the food.

There is nothing, and I do mean nothing, that my child could ever disclose to me that would make me turn him/her away, in terms of illness that is. I would wash away his tears with my own, up close and personal if that would mark a matter of degrees' difference regarding a positive prognosis. But, disclose the commission of a crime and you have an entirely different scenario.

I'd tell the child how proud i am of him/her to be couraged and tell me that he/she has HIV and i won't turn them away, but love and support them as long as they live till they face the death. Encourage them with God's word and to strength their faith and hope in Jesus who will take them home which is the eternal heaven. They need our forgivenesss and acceptable..The HIV is very scary experience to feel very loss of the value life. To pray with them... to spend with them for all the costs of our times left with .....weep with them. what more i should tell you... i know it's a heartbreaking to watch them slip away to the death, but keep in mind that we will see them again in Heaven.

I would be loving and supporting. It's a disease, but they are still human and they are my child.

It would hurt to know my child had it, but I wouldn't turn my back on my child. I have friends who have HIV and I am still friends with them.

I'm not Christian...I'm Hindu. If I have a child, it is my duty to care for them and love them. If I turned my back on my child and abandoned my child and left them to suffer alone, I would fail in my duty...my dharma. Doing one's dharma is very important....it is part of one's life goal. Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha (duty, sharing of knowledge, pleasure, and union with the infinite)...

i would support my child.i love my child no matter what.to me it is unconditional which means i would love him even if he tried to destroy the world.besides i wouldn't assume the worse.to me it wouldn't matter how it happened just that my kid is sick and would need me.no fear would come between that

I have done my research on HIV and AIDS. I know it has nothing to do with morals or leading an immoral life.

No, I would not abandon my baby if s/he has HIV or full-blown AIDS. To do so would go against everything I believe in about humanity.