Raising children is often a huge undertaking that can be incredibly challenging. Not only do you have to ensure that you are meeting both their emotional and physical needs (which will obviously change over time, serving to only make parenting harder), you have to make sure that doing an alright job of raising them into becoming functional members of society.
The only problem is, you can’t exactly tell whether they are going to be well-adjusted young adults ready for independence until they are much, much older.
As you can imagine, when it comes to children with special needs, this worry becomes even more extreme.
