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/^t/Usually, when a child with Down's syndrome is born it is a great and rather unpleasant surprise to its parents. They are not prepared to cope with the situation and do not know what to do. It is not easy to keep such a child at home and spend the rest of one's life taking care of a retarded person. It would take whole life, because the prognosis for them ever reaching anything approaching normality are hopeless. Of course, the decision of giving one's own child to some institution is definitely a difficult one. However, it is necessary to realize that this would probably be a better solution for everybody. It is better for the child itself, because it would have professional help and appropiate company there, and for its family - there would be no financial problems (or at least less serious ones) and no bad effects on other members of the family.