Dad Refuses To Give Up Newborn Son With Down Syndrome

[cavanami]

...and you think you have problems...good on this Kiwi!!!

 

Dad Refuses to Give Up Newborn Son With Down Syndrome

 

https://gma.yahoo.com/dad-refuses-newborn-son-down-syndrome-221817795--abc-news-parenting.html

 

When Samuel Forrest of Armenia heard a baby crying from outside his wife's hospital room, he knew his life would change forever.

 

Not only had he become a father, but he would soon receive some unexpected news about his newborn son.

 

"This pediatrician walks out of the room with a little bundle -- that was Leo," Forrest said. "She had his face covered up and hospital authorities wouldn't let me see him or my wife. When the doctor came out, he said 'there’s a real problem with your son.'

 

Forrest followed doctors and nurses into a room where he'd finally get to meet his baby.

 

"When I walked into the room they all turned to me and said 'Leo has Down syndrome," he told ABC News. "I had a few moments of shock."

 

After the news had sunk in, Forrest held Leo for the very first time.

"They took me in see him and I looked at this guy and I said, he's beautiful -- he's perfect and I'm absolutely keeping him."

 

Soon Forrest walked into his wife's hospital room with Leo in his arms.

Her reaction was unlike one he ever expected.

 

"I got the ultimatum right then," he said. "She told me if I kept him then we would get a divorce."

Forrest, who's from Auckland, New Zealand, said he was completely unaware of the hospital practices in Armenia when it came to children.

 

"What happens when a baby like this is born here, they will tell you that you don’t have to keep them," he said. "My wife had already decided, so all of this was done behind my back."

 

Despite his wife's warnings, Forrest said he never had a doubt in his mind that he would hold onto his son.

 

One week after his birth, Leo's mom filed for divorce.

 

"It's not what I want," Forrest said. "I didn’t even have a chance to speak with her in privately about it."

 

Forrest, who works as a freelance business contractor, has plans for he and Leo to move to his native country of New Zealand where he said they'll receive support from loved ones....

[Flashermac]

Not a very Armenian name. Presumably the wife is Armenian?

[Guest]

What mother could abandon her new baby, irrespective of disabiity. Better he has just his father's support and that of his family and frends, rather than have this mother in his life, who would have shown resentment to him in his upbringing in anycase.

 

She has shown her true colours both baby and father are better off without her .....

[Flashermac]

The mother's action amounts to post-natal abortion.