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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (229420)4/16/2005 5:09:35 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1574101
 
One mother who participated in a study of 3,000 members of five state associations of parents of Down syndrome children reported that when, in 1999, she was told that the baby she was expecting had Down syndrome, a geneticist showed her "a really pitiful video first of people with Down syndrome who were very low tone and lethargic-looking and then proceeded to tell us that our child would never be able to read, write or count change." Try telling that to Jon Will as he navigates Washington's subway system to use his season tickets to the Wizards basketball games and (soon) Nationals baseball games.

I don't know if its recognized by all people but some people are not equipped to deal with children even when the children are what's considered by many to be 'normal'. In fact, some adults refuse to be sucked into the idealized version of what typical life in the US is supposed to be like.....two parents, two kids and a white house with a picket fence. They don't want kids period. They hate the responsibility and how kids infringe on their lives. People who have been born to such parents can attest how miserable their lives were growing up.

So why permit a child with Down's Syndrome to come into this world to parents who don't want him/her? Its possible that the parents will change their minds but what if they don't? Its the child who will suffer and no one else.

When he was born in 1972 -- a time when an episode on a network television hospital drama asserted that people with Down syndrome could not be toilet-trained -- the hospital geneticist asked Jon's parents if they intended to take him home. That question is, surely, no longer asked when Down syndrome babies are born.

From what I understand, the capabilities of people with Down's Syndrome can vary considerably. Some are fairly functional and can live on their own. Others must be in the care of a caretaker for most of their lives.

ted
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