In the documentary Sound and Fury two families with deaf children try to decide how best to raise there kids. Will the kids be apart of the hearing world with the cochlear implant, or will they continue life with their deafness? It is my firm belief that declining the opportunity to raise your child with the ability to hear is borderline abusive and painfully limiting for the rest of the child's life.
Peter and Nita's decision to keep their child from hearing at a young age absolutely makes me sick. They claim that they want Heather to ultimately be happy, but only if she is happy to be deaf. They deny her the opportunity to choose if she is more happy hearing or not. Maybe deep within Heather there is an intense passion to become a profession that requires verbal communication, but she will never know because she was never implanted. The father Peter even said it himself that even though he has a stable job, he is hugely dependent on hearing people to communicate and that he will probably never move up the ladder of his work.
Chris and Mari on the other hand decided to implant their child. One of the fears of implanting is that the child will lose their deaf heritage. This is the responsibility of the parents that they teach their child about both cultures.
