Comments on: Down Syndrome Parents: Palin Is Role Model

CBS Evening News: Parents Say Doctors Need More Care In Counseling Expectant Parents

[barbaraf4]

The testing described in the article was developed to test for birth defects (specifically Downs)in babies being carried by women in their 40s.

If Sarah Palin is such a pro-life advocate, then why did she bother to even have the testing done?

She is not a role model. She is a self-serving hypocrit and liar. Her ambition knows no bounds and if McCain is elected, I would watch my back if I were him. She will make it into the White House some how.

[patobrientoo]

Wait a minute, hypnotoad72, do you even KNOW what Obama wants to teach little kids? He voted for a curriculum for kids grade K through 12 -- each grade taught appropriately. For kindergarten, what is appropriate is to teach kids how to resist pedophiles, for crying out loud. It has NOTHING to do with what a pee-pee does. (What kind of a stupid comment was that, anyway?)
The misinformation that goes around is outrageous. We''re going to elect another candidate that people mistakenly think is a ''real'' person we''d like to have over for a barbecue. I don''t want the president to be someone who does good barbecue. I want a giant on the world stage who can think, reflect, plan, work with people (not get snarky with them like Palin or pop his cork like McCain). I want a return to sanity. Is that too much to ask?
And I''ll know what kind of parents Sarah and Todd are with Trig when I see how they handle his growing years. I know from whence I speak. It''s tough. But rewarding. I hope they can handle it. But I''m not ready to canonize them just because the accepted him into this world. That part was only right.

[stn_sage]

I don''t know that I''d consider her a role model for her baby! That''s a bit of a stretch---!

But, I do hope she does a better job with the baby than she did with her shameless, nymphomaniac daughter whom she FAILED miserably! Good luck.

[hypnotoad72]

Any mother that can''''t teach her daugher about safe se x and stands on the side while her daughter gets pregnant out of wedlock, not once, but twice, is not a person fit to handle a political office responsibly.

Posted by yongamerica
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Please read my post below as it directly talks about sexuality. How do you know she didn''t teach her kids? And even then, ambient influences are not irrelevant either. Peer pressure for *** is not much different than credit card companies seeking out high school or college kids.

[mommakat64]

youngamerica....sheeesh, you are a rumor troll. The sequence of dates allows that Trig is Sarah''s.

[hypnotoad72]

That was a good read, thank you.

But given the plight of pregnant teenagers in America, when will more articles describing root factors be addressed? The media is a prime suspect, as it does feed into peer pressure that gets children to "play around" in the first place. Obama has it wrong by wanting to teach Kindergartners what a pee-pee does. "Abstinence only" is only being talked about nominally; the underlying concepts of self-respect and respect for others being why one waits in the first place remain completely unspoken. Parents can do only so much; after a point it''s the peer system that takes over. Like it or not, we''re a community - albeit a large one. And the media needs to get away from slap-happy programming. There is a time and place for everything, but I dare say the greed of the marketers ensure the wrong material gets into kids'' hands. Keeping material and its advertisement appropriate to the ratings system helps (encouraging kids to bypass laws to see an "R" rated film when they''re under 17 is as awful as any other form of abuse)

[nvorr]

There was a story the other day which talked about how she toured the state''s prison facility, and rode with her son on her lap. Everyone blasted Britney Spears for doing this and said she was a bad parent. Does this not apply to Sarah Palin. I have two problems with this, 1) she took a baby with her while conducting official business, and 2) she did not have him restrained in a child safety seat.

[mommakat64]

Good, very good. It''s about time for true discussion of options...instead of just suggesting the easy way out. I have found that doctors have become quite "my way or the highway" about things. Some doctors, like mine, discuss naturopathic and other "alternative" ways of dealing with health issues, which is very welcome in the face of such high medical costs...and insurance companies not funding even legitimate cures and procedures.

[rrauch1]

Role model if that includes speaking in tongues and attending 6 colleges in 6 years to earn one degree.

Your coverage is like one long Palin for VP commercial thinly veiled as reporting on Down''s Syndrome. Just stop it and DO YOUR JOB!

[yongamerica]

Sarah Palin herself expresses mild symptoms of down''s syndrome. Because of her experiences with it, she can relate what her daughter''s son is experiencing.

Any mother that can''t teach her daugher about safe se x and stands on the side while her daughter gets pregnant out of wedlock, not once, but twice, is not a person fit to handle a political office responsibly.

[nvorr]

Your role model didn''t even have the guts to share the knowledge of her son''s condition with anyone in her family. Many people didn''t even know she was pregnant. Governor Palin acknowledged familial support, given the fact that one of her siblings'' kids was born with some abnormality. Had she shared the information with her family she would have had their support as well.

It almost seems she was embarrassed by her son. Sadly, we didn''t even see her or her husband hold him in public until after people started commenting on it.

[patobrientoo]

Sarah Palin is NOT a role model for parents of Down Syndrome kids. If you want role models, check out my parents and my 47 year-old sister. My parents, with five kids at home, kept their Down Sydrome daughter when doctors were telling people to put her in an institution and go one with their lives. And they started one of the first groups for parents of kids with Down''s ever! And my sister has a great life -- WITH our family. I see Sarah Palin USING her child and trotting him out in public day after day to make her look good. (He''s an adorable little guy, isn''t he? Such a good kid.) But I don''t see her as any kind of role model. She doesn''t know what the future holds with her child. He''s only a few months old. Pretty much like other babies. We''ll know what kind of role model she is when Trig starts growing up. And maybe she''ll stop using him as a badge of honor.