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Understood.  Numerous hearing parents on this board alone has expressed their motive for implanting their children was to make it easier for them to integrate and become a part of the hearing world; their world.  They know the world as hearing people, and therefore, want their children to be a part of the world as they know it.  The same can be said for deaf parents.  They know the world as deaf individuals, and it is perfectly reasonable for them to experience the same in reverse.  I don't think that is such a difficult concept to grasp.  Any hearing parent that tells you that they did not grieve when they discovered that their child was not hearing, and also denies that the grief was in large part because they view deafness from their own hearing perspective is in serious denial.