But, wait on, Candide. Your kids have been vaccinated: right? Yet they're going to catch a disease against which they've been vaccinated from non-vaccinated kids? How's that?

The author is one of the "thalidomide generation", which would seem, at age around fifty years, to preclude her from the young mothers' group. She does , however, write as if protecting her infants of today and this rather skews the article.
Australia has quite recently had several children infected by, and one child dying from, a new stronger type of poliomyelitis which was first noted in China. I am of the polio generation, from the 1930s and 40s. Having lived through that, if this disease becomes rampant I believe parents,anti and pro vaccination, will be queuing to keep their child safe. It is precisely because parents have not known illness and deaths from once prevalent diseases that our ancestors feared that they feel they may choose.
As a nurse I cared for infants dying from whooping cough and measles, helped infants and children permanently crippled by polio and watched the horror of death from tetanus...no possible complication from vaccination is worse than these frequently fatal diseases.

I should clarify my earlier post.

Sophia Love's article is malicious garbage and the link I provide illustrates that plainly.

Love is the sort of person who lives in a civilized infrastructure where the trevails and horrors of nature are kept at bay but who through lack of wit and ego dreams up ideas which if implemented widely would decimate that civilized infrastructure and return humanity to plagues.

Carol83, FYI I am 47 and my son is 4 and a half. I home birthed him, aged 42, safely on the farm where we live. I am absolutely in the thick of the debate as he goes to preschool 3 days a week and this is the Mother's Group hot topic of the past few years

SO how will you feel if your unvaccinated child is a carrier of whooping cough and causes the death of a baby from one of the pre-school families or some other family you happen to come into contact with?

Are you going to answer my question about smallpox? If smallpox hadn't been eradicated would you take your child to a 'smallpox party'? Have you had any vaccinations yourself? At your age I'd guess you would have been offered polio and rubella vaccinations at school. How would you feel if your little boy had been born deaf because you had rubella during your pregnancy?

Sophie - I can only agree with cohenite.. before the introduction of vaccination children use to die like flies.. parents with several children would see their whole family wiped out.

Granted that some vaccinations may no longer be necessary but if so, that is a matter for the medical profession as a whole to come sort of agreement. Because the risks of continuing vaccinations are trivial to non-existent (evidence otherwise?) some conservatism in such matters is acceptable. It is not for you to unilaterally withdraw from the system, and potentially put everyone else in danger. Nor are arguments about the body being a temple or some such relevant. So stop messing around and get your kids fully vaccinated. You will not get little sympathy on this site for this nonsense and rightly so.