As a previous post informed me on here this is a month to appreciate people with Down Syndrome. I recently published this article for a client of mine on www.greathealthwatch.net and felt that I’d pay tribute to them also.
Down Syndrome & Families
Whilst researching for this article I was intrigued and enamoured at the positivity of any, or indeed all of the families with a Down Syndrome child. The one common denominator of them all was the amount of love between them. I don’t think that I have ever come across a more loving group of parents and children on any other subject. In the ‘Huffington Post’ on-line there is a great article on this same subject whereby 55 Families in the USA are interviewed. Every single parent is positive about the experience of having a baby with Down Syndrome. The overall impression is that the parents get as much benefit from their children than that they give to their offspring.
Down’s people are born with a slight defect in that they have an additional chromosome which affects things like physical growth and intellectual ability along with a distinctive appearance which for many years gave them the rather disparaging name of Mongol. Not only is that racist to people from that continent it was shortened by many as an insult. Thankfully, these days people tend to be more enlightened and less…
