A pastor had asked us to visit a couple in a South East hospital. The wife had given birth a day or two before — to a boy with Down’s Syndrome.
She and her husband had been asked by the doctor: ‘Do you want your child to live?’ They needed help in making their response to what must be the hardest question a parent will ever be asked.
My wife, Madeleine, and I shared with them our experience as parents of a daughter with the same condition, and the blessing she had brought into our family. Subsequently we learnt that they had taken their son home with them.
