{"id":417,"date":"2010-11-05T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T08:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/11\/what-im-reading-articles-about-autism-choices-that-matter-and-economics.html"},"modified":"2010-11-05T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T08:40:05","slug":"what-im-reading-articles-about-autism-choices-that-matter-and-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/11\/what-im-reading-articles-about-autism-choices-that-matter-and-economics.html","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: Articles about Autism, Choices that Matter, and Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are working to identify signs of autism in younger children, according to the New York Times: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/aPORZY\" target=\"_blank\">At the Age of Peekaboo, In Therapy to Fight Autism<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My friend Ellen Painter Dollar has begun a series on her blog, Choices that Matter, giving voice to the personal choices women have made surrounding prenatal testing. The first in the series, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/choicesthatmatter.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/stories-matterwhen-clarity-is-elusive.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stories Matter&#8211;When Clarity is Elusive, but Decisions are Necessary<\/a>&#8221; tells the story of a woman who discovered that her daughter, in utero, had only two chambers of the heart. Her story raises all sorts of questions about how best to care for a child, what it means to love a child in the face of impossible decisions, and how the medical establishment and parents interact in making these types of choices.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finally, another article from the New York Times that caught my attention because it argues that the economic inequality in the United States has more to do with politics and power than anything else: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/02\/opinion\/02herbert.html?_r=1&amp;src=me&amp;ref=general\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Track to Inequality<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are working to identify signs of autism in younger children, according to the New York Times: &#8220;At the Age of Peekaboo, In Therapy to Fight Autism.&#8221;&nbsp; My friend Ellen Painter Dollar has begun a series on her blog, Choices that Matter, giving voice to the personal choices women have made surrounding prenatal testing. 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