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02-06-2015, 01:31 PM
How old were the parents?
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02-06-2015, 01:31 PM
Aren't there ways to tell if the kid has down syndrome while it's still a fetus? Then you can abort without having to wait 9 months?
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02-06-2015, 01:48 PM
I read about this in the paper on my way home from the gym today.
There was a line about how the mother didn't want to eschew the values of her family.
Hell, any woman who's willing to advocate tradition over bleeding heart compassion gets a point in my book.
I just feel bad for the father because his life's finished now. Or at least his life as he knew it. He's going to have to subjugate his needs, desires and happiness for the next 20+ years.
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Woman gives birth to Down Syndrome Child. Tells Husband, if we keep baby = divorce
02-06-2015, 01:50 PM
If you can't handle a potentially negative outcome you shouldn't be having kids in the first place. There's no guarantee anyone's kids are gonna be healthy. Selfish bitch.
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02-06-2015, 02:09 PM
It depends on the severity of the defect, and how much the paretns work on the children since his birth. Most of down symdrome kids grows to semi-funtional adults if they are well raised.
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02-06-2015, 02:13 PM
What a complete and utter bitch.
Where is the SJW outrage over this discrimination?
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Woman gives birth to Down Syndrome Child. Tells Husband, if we keep baby = divorce
02-06-2015, 02:22 PM
It wont be that different from having a 'healthy' millennial child who will live in their parents' basement for 28 years anyways.
The only difference is the kid with down syndrome wont rack up $100,000 in student loan debt.
Id even contend your normal liberal young person will naively do more damage to their own lives and stick their parents with the bill, compared to a down syndrome person who lives a simple life.
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02-06-2015, 03:18 PM
Traditionally, as in the last century in the West and majority of the world currently, handicapped children would get killed at birth via exposure or other methods, get sent to an institution (like one of JFK's sisters), or get locked up/hidden away in the family home. Enlightenment and humanism has endowed rights towards the mentally and physically disabled so that they are able to mostly live a life of dignity in the West.
In high school I knew a girl who had some sort of eye condition that rendered one of her eyes blind, with a milky film. Her family had to immigrate from one of the Gulf states as she was not allowed to go to school there. She wasn't mentally handicapped, she actually was pretty sharp, but due to attitudes towards disability her life was curtailed over there. She ended up running for student council and last I heard is an engineer, married to a white dude, with three children.
The Armenian mother'a attitude is not out of the norm. She lives in a society where the child will be an outcast, with outdated attitudes, and where there is minimal support network from the govt and other institutions.
Westernerners, thanks to the medical, governmental and educational support systems that are tax payer funded, in addition to overall progressive and humanitarian value systems, have shaken off such backwards attitudes towards the disabled and are able to provide dignified life to them.
For all the squawking about the decline of the West that's made over here, one of the most honourable things about living in Western society is the recognition of the dignity of human life no matter the person, and the actions taken in societal and individual levels to ensure that dignity.
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Woman gives birth to Down Syndrome Child. Tells Husband, if we keep baby = divorce
02-06-2015, 03:41 PM
There was a PBS movie that spoke about Down's Syndrome in a very dignified way. It was called The Teachings of Jon, and cannot be found on YouTube. (There are some trailers, though.)
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02-06-2015, 04:38 PM
I wouldn't wish Down's Syndrome on anyone and I'm sure it's extremely tough to be a parent to a child with it, especially as you get up in years. But there are some benefits to it. My best friend's cousin has it and he's got a pretty good sense of humor. He's like an eternal kid.
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