The Works of God

Motherlode, a blog on parenting in the New York Times Magazine, reported on a study from The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders that studied mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder.

Some of the findings:

• The levels of chronic stress experienced by the mothers were similar to those of combat soldiers. The greater the child’s behavior problems, the worse the mothers’ stress.
• Mothers of those with autism reportedly spend at least two hours more each day caring for those children than a comparative group of mothers whose children were not autistic.
• The autism mothers were three times as likely to report a stressful event on any given day, and twice as likely to be tired.

My response: they needed a study to learn this?

I must admit that the comparison to soldiers in combat was a nice touch.

Many commenters at disabilityScoop have already noted that, once again, fathers were not part of a study.  So I’ll leave that one alone.

And, regardless of stress levels, parents being included or not, amount of time involved or anything else associated with disability, we know God’s response:

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19