Let me put things in perspective
> A child with down syndrome will have 20-50x chances to contract Alzheimer's/dementia
> A child with down syndrome will a 10x of contracting cancer
> A child with down syndrome will 50-65% chances of developing a heart condition and 50% chances of hearing & vision loss
Now for financial sides of things
> Compared to a normal healthy child it takes 2-6 times more to raise a child with down syndrome
> Average costs up to 18 years of age could be between $400,000 to $700,000 (with insurance)
Raising a child with down syndrome is not only cruel to them but to parents too. I haven't even mentioned the emotional stress of it. The choice 100% belongs to the parents.
In 2024 532,000 children were confirmed victims of abuse. Half a million kids I bet if given a choice they would choose to be born to parents who actually wanted them.
A lot of these people saying “I would adopt a Down Syndrome baby in a heartbeat” would not last a day taking care of a severely physically and intellectually disabled adult.
My first year in case management we had an elderly woman found down at the grocery store. She was somnolent then confused. Frail. Kept mentioning a name when she finally woke up — we thought it might be a dog or cat so we called animal control.
It was her disabled son who hadn’t eaten in days, alone.
Our social nets are small and they are shrinking.
But hey, cute tractor video.
sounds like two people responsible and self-aware enough to know what they’re equipped to handle, and opted to avoid bringing a child into the world who would suffer and they would resent. 🤷🏾♀️
i’m already seeing people complain about #ScaryMovie6 not having a plot and in a letterboxd world where everybody and their mama is a film critic, i beg you to watch at least the first two films. none of them had a plot. it’s literally just parodies thrown together. LAUGH. 😭
Notice how "girls mature faster" is never stated as a reason to why girls should be given more positions of power and authority? It only works to hold girls to greater accountability than boys and to justify men's attraction to them.