That's the problem with lying and cheating.

I know, but staying in an unloving relationships doesn't teach your child-special needs or not-anything. It just encourages the child to 'settle' with someone even though they are worth more. Disability shouldn't be an excuse, esp since the family is not-so-poor. I think it would be interesting if they try something a little original. Maybe casting a poor, black, female, autistic child who is living with a single mother or father. Showing how low to no cost healthcare plays a role on disabled people. People talk about how welfare is bad but my lower-income family needed it, esp with two autistic kids.

Maybe top all of that by showing how raising a disabled child can make you almost abandon them. I know that feeling as an autistic female of color growng up in public housing-though living in a two-parent household. They didn't have the appropriatte coping skills to raise an autistic child, but they did the best they thought they could. Thank goodness he was d/x at 5, but the average black autistic child (without Asperger's if you ask) is d/x at 9 or 10. I was d/x at 10 or 11. Maybe they could show a little 'Pursuit of Happiness' teas by showing what it's like to be homeless or almost homeless with a developmentally disabled child. Not just using autism as a one-dimensional, 'it's all about the disability', upper-middle class white people phase b/c there are folks are there who think autism is just a rich white folk 'excuse'. That is probably part of the reason why most black autistic kids get diagnosed much later than most white autistic kids.

Maybe they should focus more on child's social experience rather than use his/her health status as tool for something un-related. B/c believe me, the parents cheating/back-peddling have almost nothing to do w/ the autism. There's a 9/10 chance that they'd be lying/cheating anyway if the child was enabled.