{"id":11815,"date":"2025-04-03T01:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/?p=11815"},"modified":"2025-04-03T01:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:28:31","slug":"couple-with-down-syndrome-decide-to-have-children-face-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/archives\/11815","title":{"rendered":"Couple with Down syndrome decide to have children, face criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='\"wp-block-group' has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained>\n<div class='\"entry-content' wp-block-post-content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-post-content-is-layout-constrained>\n<div class='\"code-block' code-block-2>\n<div data-type='\"_mgwidget\"' data-widget-id='\"1746493\"'>\n\n<p>Most of us can relate to being on the receiving end of other people\u2019s opinions and questions when it comes to having children.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-1>\n<div data-type='\"_mgwidget\"' data-widget-id='\"1746492\"'>\n\n<p>Today, society has this silent pressure that you should have a good job, meet a partner, get married, and have children. Therefore, spouses who decide not to have kids must often have to justify their decision to others. People who don\u2019t understand such a decision can be pretty clumsy and ask personal questions that are not their business whatsoever.\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-4>\n<p>These questions can often be very personal and unpleasant and can make the recipient feel uncomfortable especially when asked why they\u2019ve chosen not to be a parent.<br>\nUnfortunately, not having children can be considered the ultimate form of egoism \u2013 but when couples who are perceived as \u201cdifferent\u201d want to have children together, then the view of what is egoism changes quickly\u2026\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Most of us can relate to being on the receiving end of other people\u2019s opinions and questions when it comes to having children. Today, society has this silent pressure that &hellip; \n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11817,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions\/11817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>