U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr has suggested that parents should be the culprit of their children's autism and are responsible for studying all aspects of their children's lives that may affect their growth.

"We have to realize that we are doing this to our children and we need to end it," Kennedy said in his first press conference as Health Secretary.

In a recent interview with Dr. Phil McGraw, Kennedy told parents to “do their own research” when they were vaccinated, noting that scientists are still trying to understand whether the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines can cause serious side effects, such as brain swelling (they know; they don’t know).

"You study baby strollers, you study the food they get, you need to study the medicines they take," he said.

The statements appear to accuse parents of vaccinating their children and causing autism, a vast majority of heredity, said Jessica Calarco, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Put it together: How women become America's safety net.

"That's what he means and how he will read it," Caraco said.

This is a message that made Shannon des Roches Rosa diagnose early. In 2003, she subscribed to the novel theory of the time that vaccines could be associated with autism - so much that she stopped getting her children’s vaccine.

Rosa said she saw a doctor who specializes in treating children with autism who “let us do all these pseudoscience and supplements instead of vaccinating our children.”

"People think we have an autism epidemic when we don't have it. It's diagnosis and recognition," she said.

With the emergence of a study, there was no link between vaccines and autism, Rosa began to have her children take regular shots again.

She said: “There is no link between vaccines and autism. Although it can be solved any science, it has been solved.

"I don't think parents will blame themselves automatically. I think people who hear when they hear fear of autism hear, like RFK Jr.

Parents, especially mothers, have long been blamed for their children’s autism diagnosis. In the 1940s, psychologists believed that this was caused by a "fridge mother" or a mother who was too "cold" to her children.

"There is a huge culture of blame and shame for mothers," Caraco said.

She said that is one of the reasons why autism vaccination is explained. “It alleviates the blame despite clear evidence.”

In efforts to connect vaccines to autism, Kennedy has also opened the door to legal action against vaccine manufacturers, Calarco said.

“If they can point to vaccines, that means they can legally hold others accountable, thereby gaining financial support for the regular parenting costs of raising children in a society without a strong social safety net.”

The lack of social safety nets is one of the reasons Kennedy is prevalent among some parents of autistic children.

For example, families with disabilities are almost twice as likely to face financial difficulties as families without disabilities, according to a new study.

“We put a lot of burden on families, especially mothers, to deal with the child’s diagnosis to browse the support their children need,” Caraco said. “In such a system, it’s easy to require any form of support and attention even if it means receiving misinformation.”

Carraco said the blame for mothers has been going on for decades, partly because “mothers are overwhelmingly people who make health care decisions for their families.” “If you’re telling parents or telling society that someone should do the job to keep the child safe, then you’re really saying that women should be doing the job, especially mothers.”

This information also reinforces the ideal of dense mothers, especially living at home, Calarco said. “RFK JR is making weapons for the super mom myth – the wrong idea is that moms are the only ones who can keep their kids safe.”

Rosa delayed Kennedy's suggestion that parents conduct research on vaccines.

"I don't have to do that. That's what the researchers did, and the researchers have solved the problem. I can't tell you how painful it is to see all the research over the years involved autism and vaccine causality that could have been used to study my son's better quality of life."

Some parents think they are the parents responsible for diagnosing and finding relief, and also try unproven and dangerous “treatment” of autism. For example, chelation is a process used to reverse heavy metal poisoning, which can lead to heart attacks and deaths if not carefully supervised. In January, a five-year-old child died in a high-pressure chamber while receiving "oxygen therapy." Other parents also gave their children enema with the advice of shamed pseudoscientists.

"This is not enough to let people know that vaccines don't cause autism. We must also be sure that autism is not something to fear," Rosa wrote.

"If they get affirmative and neutral information about autism from the beginning, if our society isn't too afraid of autism from the beginning - obviously, every disability is different, but it's just 'oh my kids need glasses,'" she said.

Rosa continued: “Although disability is a natural component of human mutation, even if it is stigmatized, so what we need to do is provide better support for people like my son.”

Health leaders such as Kennedy “need to focus on helping people live a good life, not trying to stop them from being there,” she said.