No household that contains a 13-year-old boy is eternally tranquil. There had been a bit of temperament that evening, an outright refusal to go to bed, hard words for his mother and his father, and trickiest of all, an attitude that seemed to deny not only our parenthood but our humanity.
Simon Barnes
I know that Richard Dawkins is wrong about Down’s syndrome, because I know my son
Eddie is capable of living a fulfilling life, and if he’s a luxury society can’t afford then that’s not a society I want to live in
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