Judging by the Trig Palin comments from the left, I think we have a good idea. Unfortunately.
Just a FWIW...
Back in the late 80s I worked as a “Mental Hygene Therapy Aide” in a state institution with the profoundly retarded (sub-20 IQ as the scale went at the time). The number of parents that would visit their children in an institution with several hundred ‘clients’ could be counted on one hand. Literally.
Retarded children are throw away to all but the most compassionate of people/parents. And I assure you that my liberal co-workers at the time thought them less than human, to put it mildly. Look up “Willowbrook”. It’s the story that catapulted Geraldo Rivera to fame. Our facility got a lot of those people. Staff and ‘client’ alike.
Willowbrook was a real life horror story that the producers of “Saw” and “Hostile” could never hope to match. And that’s no exaggeration.
We have a great facility in our city for those children, I visited ONCE, so very hard to see those children. Yet, they all had the most loving care possible.
I was told the parents never visit them, I can not/will not judge the parents on that issue, but I would have to see my child or grandchild.
I have a Downs grandson, what a hoot. I quit my profession (R.E.), in order to care for him daily, as my daughter had to return to work. I do not regret one minute of that decision. Told my daughter, there is NO WAY he will be put in a day care, for them to neglect him. BTW: he's in school and on day one they found him above the Curve, we don't threat him as if he has a problem. He is expected to learn and behave as normal. He is such a blessing.
A year before my son died, he had a stroke, had to relearn everything, he had just finished college. The therapists taught me how to work with him, and within 1 week, they had him walking again. Another job I do not regret, caring for him. It was a pleasure and a blessing.