{"id":197176,"date":"2019-02-25T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197176"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:49:43","slug":"parents-down-syndrome-not-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/parents-down-syndrome-not-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Parents of kids with Down syndrome say ‘it’s not something to fear’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In January, BBC South shared a video on Facebook<\/a> featuring parents of children with Down syndrome, talking about what life is really like raising a child who has the condition. “We want to dispel some of the myths surrounding Down syndrome,” says one mother, Karen, near the beginning of the video. “Ellie and I are making this film because I would love to go back to that moment when she was born and not have those negative emotions and feel happy about the future ahead. And I think that won’t happen unless people see that it’s not something to fear, and I wish I’d been in that position and that I’d known what I know now.”<\/p>\n

Mothers Karen and Stacey say there are certain myths that they want to dispel: that children with Down syndrome all look the same, that they’re always happy (or happier than other children), and more.<\/p>\n

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Many parents have expressed that when they learned during pregnancy that they were expecting children with Down syndrome, they were pressured to abort<\/a> multiple times<\/a> and were given little to no accurate information<\/a>… and little hope for the future. Those who found out<\/a> at birth have experienced it as a devastating tragedy, not as a moment of joy. This video was made to try to help people understand what children with Down syndrome are nothing to fear — and everything to love.<\/p>\n

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