Posted on 03/21/2024 9:38:31 PM PDT by Morgana
Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy says her youngest daughter who has Down Syndrome teaches her eight other kids patience.
The 52-year-old appeared on Fox & Friends with four-year-old Valentina StellaMaris Duffy to raise awareness on National Down Syndrome day.
'So many of children with Downs are being exterminated in the womb and I think that when people get to meet them and see how wonderful they are we are going to see less of that,' Campos-Duffy told the show.
Valentina was seen playing with Ainsley Earhardt and showing off the pilates skills she learnt in physical therapy.
Campos-Duffy shares eight other children with her husband former congressman Sean Duffy and she said her family is better off because of Valentina.
ox & Friends Weekend co-host Campos-Duffy and her daughter were introduced to show where Valentina waved and said 'hi'.
'I think it's really important to raise awareness because actually, a lot of women get this diagnoses, a lot of them, and they will get fearful,' Campos-Duffy said.
'There's a lot of fear around it. Even the medical community can make people scared and say, well, you have options.
'I think when people realize that they are just like any other child, they have a few little challenges, sometimes medical.
'Some them are prone to heart conditions, maybe some thyroid stuff. But all of that is very treatable.'
She praised Valentina and said she has helped her family become more tolerant and patient.
'She is as lovely, as precious, as joyful, as any other child,' Campos-Duffy said.
'In fact, I would say our family is better because of her. I think our kids have learned tolerance and patience. They’ve learned to be helpful.
Valentina then showed off her pilates skills to Earhardt and began playing around the studio.
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It is now rare that I encounter anyone with Downs. Decades ago, it wasn’t that way but now most are prevented from being born.
Good for her. Down Syndrome kids are almost all just charming .
Decades ago, I worked for a foundation in Los Angeles that trained those little ones. A lot of Hollywood people supported it, I think because one had a kid with Downs.
I did PR, in the same building as people who worked with the children, observed how they treated them, what they taught them. Incurable disease, but kids can learn a great deal. Some were wonderful artists, some could sing well enough to make their families happy. They learned how to dress themselves and to wear cute clothes so they looked as normal as possible. Manners were stressed.
I still have a warm place in my heart for Downs kids, talk to them when I see them.
All of those with Down’s that I’ve met in my life have been gentle souls. In many ways they are way beyond the rest of us.
Nice story.
In Iceland there are no Down Syndrome babies. They kill them all.
But the incidence of kids "on the spectrum" has exploded. We traded apparent physical maladaptation for mental dysfunction.
It takes a special kind of person to deal with downs children.
God bless Rachel. I admire her and have admired her.
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