Fio, anniebear, 2shoes, if periods prove to be a problem then I believe the gp would do a contraceptive jab.
Funnily enough I was having this very conversation (about the future) with some mums this morning at our cdc, we got goosepimples talking about it, we are all worried. However, I do think the future looks good for people with SN, I mean if you look at people with sn of our generation, there wasn't half as much understanding and therapies available - autism was barely heard of, same with dyslexia, attention deficit, aspergers, dyspraxia etc etc, and now it's picked up at such an early age and most of us can get early intervention for our kids. My cousin who has Down's Syndrome is almost 40 and he wasn't given any of the help my son is getting now. And the generation before that My goodness, doesn't bear thinking about...
If Cameron gets in then I can't see that he would ignore this situation (the uncertainty and worry), but even if he doesn't surely us mums and dads are going to DEMAND our children are properly looked after when they're older. My HV was telling me she recently went to a lecture where some professor was saying there has been a real rise in the incidence of congenital problems leading to SNs, mainly due to the increasing survival rates of preemies (remember the "bed blockers" debacle?), so surely the pressure to do something about it will be immense.
Presently it seems to me that there's loads of support out there for the little ones, but it suddenly drops off when they've reached school or home-leaving age, then suddenly no one wants to know. There must be solutions to this, ie maybe there should be some kind of government endorsed scheme where we can pay some money into a special investment account for our little ones' future so they can pay for an assistant or pay for some kind of supported accommodation.
What do other countries do? Switzerland or Germany for instance (aren't they supposed to be very progressive? and good with SNs?)