no, come on guys! i can accept one thing: if you are not good individual, dont have children PLEASE. but I'm sure there is somewhere some good parents who have asperger syndrome. the real problem is that a lot of parent make children with emotion and no logic, that make teenager disturbed or just like you said, limited at money and gift, and they will ask it from you, as parents. the good parents are minority.

I have some problems with how we normalize the way a good family should be. i think the way fasmily should be are personnal to anyone. for me, a perfect reality should be ''case by case'', each person is different and we should respect this and accept it.

I think it depends on the baby as much as it is with grown up people - some baby are very pretty and cute Babies and some others aren cute at all.

Definitely. I just about melt when I see a baby or a young child. It's got something to do with the natural affinity of the human female for the human infant, I suppose, even when said human female does not want to have any infants.

Yes, but I don't usually admit it.

Babies and animals----yes.  Death and war---no.

  lol, ATM.  I really was just curious as to whether Aspies have the same instinctual pull towards the protection of babies that NTs are proven to have in studies, whether they asthetically like them or not, in other words the genetic instinct to want to protect a life form with a certain head to body and eye to head ratio.  I guess my thread title wasn't very scientific.

My answer is still yes.

I found I liked babies and young children and cute animals a lot more after I had my children. I still don't like screaming toddlers though.

Human babies are almost always cute. Certain congenital birth-defects make for an absolutely hideous infant.

Anyone ever heard of a harlequin baby?  *shudders*

It depends on whether the baby's mom has regained her pre-natal figure or not.

^^  Yes, someone once posted a link to information and a picture of one here as it was relevant to a topic under discussion at the time.  

I wasn't concerned about the baby's appearance though.  It was the agonisingly painful nature of its short life and the extreme distress to the parents which I found upsetting.

I was responding to Petemick's post.

Yes I think babies are quite adorable and so are baby animals. I'm obsessed with cute though, so I may not count.

Are harlequin babies "made in God's image" or do they represent some corruption/distortion of His image?

Not everything is as God intended it to be. I can't accept that God intended for harlequin babies to exist, or anything so explicitly horrible.

If we (believers) don't accept all people as being made in the image of God, however "imperfect" they are or are deemed to be, then where is the line drawn between "human" and "sub-human" and who draws the line?