>>>>Well said. Now imagine you're an adult and get the measles or mumps because your parents didn't get you vaccinated. Frankly I'd be pretty pissed at my parents...and come on people - not vaccinating your child is irresponsible and negligent.
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>>>How about, now imagine you're an adult and your parents didn't get you vaccinated and you didn't get yourself vaccinated, if you so choose to do. If you don't - then your parents aren't the ones to get pissed at
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>>Of course, you'd have to know that you weren't vaccinated. I wonder how many people here have their childhood vaccination records. (I sure don't, though I do still have my kids' vaccination records.)
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>I know I had both the measles and the mumps. My mother was a nurse so don't think it was a matter of ignorance. Was there even a measles vaccine back then? I remember my daughters' pediatrician saying he was ambivalent about it because it is a relatively mild disease, a matter of a few days, which can be more serious later in life. (As can mumps).

I had German measles and chicken pox, but not measles and mumps. Pretty sure I was vaccinated for those. Guess it must have been after I had German measles, since that's a single vaccine (and I'm pretty has been for a long, long time).

I remember standing in line at the elementary school for the sugar cube polio vaccine, and I still have the scar from the smallpox vaccine.

I remember asking our pediatrician and being told that vaccinating my kids against smallpox would be malpractice; the disease was so unlikely that the risks were far higher than the benefits.

Tamar