Create a family

For this assignment we were asked to create a hypothetical family. I have to pretend that this is my family. My family is a young couple who is expecting their first child. My husband and I have decided to do a special test to see if their child has any diseases so they can prep before the baby is born. Our worse fear became true at the appointment that shared the results. Our sweet bundle of joy has Down syndrome. We are a middle class family with both of us having decent jobs. Though we both have decent jobs we do not make enough money to be able to afford all the upcoming medical bills that we will have with our child. The doctor suggest that we are able to terminate but we both right away said no. Our family was going to be watching the child while we are at work. Now that we know our child has Down syndrome they are unsure if they will be able to take care of our child. We start looking into child care but we are not able to afford to send our child to any of the centers that will take a child with Down syndrome. After many center visits we found a program called Early Head Start. We never thought we would qualify but we were accepted because of our child having Down syndrome. Early Head Start will help us find ways to afford all the medical bills that we will have. 

One thing that people are doing to advocating for early childhood is the fact the preschool really does matter. People are advocating that preschool does matter to get more funding. This really interested me because we do need more funding in early childhood education. The only thing is that it hard to get funding when there is not funds out there. I personally believe that instead of making cuts to programs that are well needed, not just education. I think the government officials should make cuts to their pay checks. That would give us funds for other programs that need the money.