When is the last time you cried, and why?

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Rb wrote: »

Oh I'm aware that some can have a good quality of life. There's some kind of center which provides those with down syndrome with work in Tallaght, I used to get the bus every day and there'd be a few of them on it. They seemed happy, we're obviously able to get around by themselves, have their own lives etc. Don't know where they went i.e to a home communal home, to their parents home etc after that, but from what I could see they had a good quality of life/were enjoying themselves.

However, some aren't able to have such lives due to it. We've elderly neighbours, they've two kids with downsyndrome and two "normal" kids. The kids with downsyndrome used to live with them until a few years ago, which meant their parents still had to fully look after them well into their 70s. You'd sometimes hear one of the "kids" (I say kids because they acted like them having fits, screaming etc. The other would do it too, I'm not too sure how often those with down syndrome have them, but it's a huge problem for their parents given their age.

Now the kids live in a communal home. They're in their 40s afaik, and they get brought to see their parents on the weekend, and then back to the home they go.

I also know two families who've had a child with down syndrome, only for them to die before birth/a few months after birth.

It's a massive responsibility to continue with a child who has down syndrome, although there's better care/support than ever, you're still going to be taking care of them for many, many more years than you would a "normal" child, not to mention the massive financial costs of rearing such a child.

It's up to the couple at the end of the day if they're happy enough to accept such a responsibility (emuch greater than that of a "normal" child) but what got to me in that thread was people who are quite obviously anti-abortion posting such things as "At X weeks, the child can hear its mothers voice" etc etc. It's blatantly attempting to send the OP on a guilt trip into keeping the child, or those saying "I terminated a pregnancy and I'll regret it to the day I'll die", sure, it's first hand experience but it's still an attempt to sway the OPs opinion. There was a lot of that going on in that thread.

Harry Potter actor stabbed to death outside London bar
One of five people knifed by irate bar patron in unprovoked attack

A promising young actor who had just completed filming a role in the next Harry Potter film has been stabbed to death outside a London bar, apparently trying to protect his younger brother.