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Unfortunately many ignorant pople in this world will treat profoundly deaf individuals like they are less than human. That could be a reason why parents want their children to be oral as well. Also, a lot of hearing people don't want to hire profoundly deaf people because they feel like it would be too hard to communicate (and to be honest, if the deaf person is not oral many times communication can be difficult). However, in many cases you can write back and forth to eachother. But many hearing people think this is just too much work and effort to deal with. Therefore, some deaf people who are not oral have a hard time getting a decent job.