The ups and downs of parenting

The rewards

• A sense of achievement

• Being like others

• Being treated as an adult

• Loving relationships

The heartaches

• Pressures for abortion

• Having children taken away

• Being watched all the time

• System abuse

Booth, T. and Booth, W. (1995) 'Unto us a child is born: the trials and rewards of parenthood for people with learning difficulties', Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 20(1), pp. 25–39.