{"id":264921,"date":"2022-03-26T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=264921"},"modified":"2022-03-25T18:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:28:05","slug":"dad-kids-disabilities-fights-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dad-kids-disabilities-fights-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad of children with disabilities fights back as trolls tell him to stop having kids"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A father of three in the United Kingdom is speaking out after repeatedly being told to stop having kids \u2014 simply because two of his children have disabilities.<\/p>\n

Ben Seal has a six-year-old son, Henry, who is autistic, while 17-month-old Reggie has Down syndrome. Six-year-old Amelie and wife Leanne round out the family. Seal regularly shares their life together on TikTok. “I’ve been into doing awareness-raising work for many years,” Seal told the Sun<\/a>. “I’ve done different campaigns raising awareness about different disabilities. When we found out my son, Reggie, had Down[] syndrome I started posting videos about that.”<\/p>\n

He continued, “I saw a lot of responses from people who wanted to hear more about Down[] syndrome. Then I introduced my son, Henry, who has autism, and got a lot of questions about autism. I thought that if I started posting more about autism and Down[] syndrome, I could help more people.”<\/p>\n

While many are supportive of his advocacy, others have attacked the family.<\/p>\n

“I’ve had people comment ‘why do you keep having babies if they keep having disabilities?'” Seal said. “I just think it’s not about that. Whether they’ve got a disability or not, at the end of the day that’s my child and they’re there to be loved. I don’t know why it bothers people when it doesn’t bother me.”<\/p>\n