http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/04/14/chronic-illness.aspxSeventy percent of families with a chronically ill child are " stronger because of their child's condition," and eighty percent have " benefited in some way from having a child with chronic illness." So reports a study interviewingenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)