Children with Down syndrome often have health problems. So that isn't accurate to say that he won't need anything different than a healthy child.
" Children with Down syndrome can have a variety of complications, some of which become more prominent as they get older, such as:
Heart defects. About half the children with Down syndrome are born with some type of heart defect. These heart problems can be life-threatening and may require surgery in early infancy.
•Leukemia. Young children with Down syndrome have an increased risk of leukemia.
•Infectious diseases. Because of abnormalities in their immune systems, those with Down syndrome are much more at risk of infectious diseases, such as pneumonia."
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/down-syndrome/basics/complications/con-20020948
Not to mention, every child with downs needs intensive early intervention to ensure he or she will be as functioning as possible. Kids with downs have muscle tone issues, speech issues, cognition challenges, etc. It's no cakewalk.
So basically it'd be better for him to be struggling than getting a nice chunk of change through donations? He doesn't seem to think so.
Yeah, I don't get this. I also don't think people realize how costly it is to relocate from one country to another. And if he wanted to maximize his son's potential how could he do so as a single, divorced dad in an underdeveloped nation with zero support system and no services for kids with special needs? Should he beg on the street for pennies?
BBM.
Well, I don't think this is a particularly good or accurate comparison. In the "animal kingdom", there are very few "Finding Nemo" stories, and the norm is more "Circle of Life." Overwhelmingly, mammals kill or abandon weak, sick, deformed, and "disabled" offspring. Survival of the fittest, and all that.
"Finding Nemo" is anthropomorphism-- most animals in the wild don't have the capacity for responsibility and compassion. They operate on instinct.
Yes and.no. No to animals in the wild lack the capacity for compassion or resnponibility. Totally false. Elephants, crows, dogs, sea mammals, primates- story after story of grieving, refusing to leave the dying or dead, working in concert to rescue another, raising the abandoned, returning to the site of a death every year for years, etc.
They are not much different from us. Leo's mom just happened to be the type that eats her young.
If this was a woman who did not have any money or means to raise a child, can you imagine the names she would be called? There would be no fund for her.
Our society doesn't call such women names- we give them welfare. I think many are failing to understand the extraordinary costs of relocating from one country to another.
I note a tone of jealousy perhaps because so many of us struggled without assistance.
Im not jealous. I'm ecstatic for this man and his son. And I think it send a powerful message to people from cultures who discard any child with a difference or disability. I hope the woman sees how much he is raising and feels awe and shame. No pass from me, btw, due to culture and resources there. She didn't even blink. Her ultimatum was immediate, ruthless and cruel.
How much you want to bet, though, that she starts seeing the amount as suddenly has a "change" of heart?
The child does not have a disability. He is an infant that needs to be fed and changed and loved. That is all. Just like the rest of the babies in the world. Get an apt. Do what you have to. Many women do it alone without fund me's.
He needs a job and a plan.
I don't even know what to say to this. I think the sky's the limit for kids with Down syndrome but to say they aren't challenged wth a disability that requires serious intervention is incredibly ignorant, IMO.
