James G. v. Caserta

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• recognizing common law rule that where a child is incapable of supporting himself because of physical or emotional disabilities, the parents' obligation to support continues beyond the child’s age of majority
• \This duty to inform does not extend to the unborn child as it is the parents' decision to risk conception or to terminate a pregnancy.\
• medical expenses of unsuccessful sterilization, childbirth, subsequent sterilization operation; wife's pain and suffering; loss of consortium recoverable, but not child-rearing expenses
• medical expenses of unsuccessful sterilization, childbirth, subsequent sterilization operation; wife’s pain and suffering; loss of consortium recoverable, but not child-rearing expenses
• ‘‘[PJarents may in a wrongful birth action recover the extraordinary costs for rearing a child with birth defects (Emphasis added.)
• “[P]arents may in a wrongful birth action recover the extraordinary costs for rearing a child with birth defects . . . .” (Emphasis added.)

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