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/^t/Mark's parents maintain that their son and other children with Down Syndrome staying at home can live useful and independent lives. They help their families to develop and become one loving unit. Retarded children with their easy-going and friendly, even passionate characters teach other people understanding and love. When they stay at home, they are able to contribute not only emotionally to the families but also financially. It is very easy to get rid of such children and live another life. However, responsibility is the measure of humanity. In everyday life we deal not only with perfect and beautiful things. When something goes wrong, we try to cope with it somehow. These are children who were given birth to by their parents, they are not nameless. Parents should take the responsibility for them. Mark's mother says that it is not easy of course, but easiness is not the test of the value of anything in the world.