It's a bit of a stretch to believe you're a god when there are 7999 other gods in the same town. You're only special when other people aren't special. You'd have to be both pretty crazy and won the Superpower Lottery in a big way.
Younger siblings probably wouldn't care much, t'd just be part of the world they were born into. Older siblings might blame them for ruining their families, depending on whether or not that actually happens.
Edit: Also, it'd be much more likely for there to be a huge age gap between older siblings, because of the unplanned nature of the coma babies. Older siblings are going to be pretty likely to be already adults and have to deal with their own coma babies. There are going to be an awful lot of same age nieces and nephews for the coma children.
As always, I think you're continuing to operate under the strange assumption that every woman of child-bearing age will be at all near to being prepared to have children. Nuclear families these aren't.
edited 23rd Apr '11 12:51:19 PM by Clarste
I'm aware they'll be a lot of teenage mothers, babies being handed over to the foster system, single mothers, ecetera. And what might be affected if all the kids powers turned on in their sleep on the same night?
Life's Gonna Suck When You Grow Up... But Is It That Great Now?... Also I'm Skylark2 now.Just treat it as some kind of summer camp or something. Every day there might be measurements or tests before lunch but if you treat that as normal the kids won't necessarily pick up that it's weird. Give them little rewards like stickers or something for being cooperative.
When I was a kid I participated in some kind of study where they weighed us several times a day at summer camp, but to this day I have no idea what they were trying to accomplish. The kids just lined up outside the weighing room and chatted normally every day as part of our routine.
Right wing seems to me to be made up mostly of two kinds of people - business guys who just want profit, and religious/moral types. The first group would want to exploit the kids for their own gain, the second group might think the kids were sent by God or the Devil (or divide into factions for both views).
Left wing people would probably be concerned about providing support to these kids and their mothers, and fighting prejudice against them. Plus scientifically analyzing where these kids actually came from, since scientists usually fall left-of-center.
Oh, and environmentalists would blame pollution for this.
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A few, but mainly limited to kid's with prexisting issues.
Life's Gonna Suck When You Grow Up... But Is It That Great Now?... Also I'm Skylark2 now.