Get a load of this...

SPerry0376

I'm not sure if anyone else has posted about this...Apparently its big in the UK right now and I just saw on my local news that people are starting to do this around the U.S.

Anyone else as bothered by parents doing this to their children as I am?

https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/30/flu.party/

DaisyFull

It was very common when I was little to do with kids that had the chicken pox.

I don't have feelings about it either way, other than it's not for me.  

magdalina.h

while I would never do this, people here (US) have pox parties to give their kids chicken pox.

Mysh

ABauer55:

It was very common when I was little to do with kids that had the chicken pox.

I don't have feelings about it either way, other than it's not for me.  

This.

HeatherPB1020

I know people who used to do this with the chicken pox.

lovinfall

I am going to judge and say these people are asking for trouble. 

1MusicMaker

The reason this is the most asinine idea ever is that chicken pox, when caught, confers lifetime immunity.  They have no idea if having had the milder strain of H1N1 will actually protect these children from a mutated, virulent strain in the future.  Idiots.

BelleIsa

Another reason people used to do this with chicken pox is that when you get chicken pox young, it's pretty harmless.  When you catch it in your teens, it can be pretty dangerous.