You’d have to be crazy to live in a border state or any area with a large illegal immigrant population and not get your children vaccinated against the more common contagious viral diseases. Sometimes you have to weigh risk v. benefit.

I had my children vaccinated against everything except Hep B. When that one became mandatory, I wasn’t convinced that it had been sufficiently tested for safety and have concerns relative its relationship as a cause or contributing factor in MS and other autoimmune diseases. Risk of exposure nearly nonexistent, and risk to others of having my child in a classroom without this vaccine entirely nonexistent. If one of them enters a health care related career field, then that risk v. benefit balance changes. Our doctor did not disagree with our decision.

Chicken pox vaccine wasn’t an issue. By the time that one became recommended (and before it was required in our state) we’d already survived the great chickenpox epidemic of 1994.