<<Can a hired person or persons take as good care of Sarah Palin's mongoloid child as she would herself?>>
The right caregiving specialist is better than the mother, since most mothers work, but it's a unique personal chemistry thing between caregiver and child, which the parent has to monitor AND the caregiver is not there 24-7, the parent has to be there for the DS kid AND for the other siblings who also have relational problems arising from this. Add to that a high burnout rate among caregivers, there are always turnovers and selection of the replacements, assessment of how well THEY are doing, how the child is dealing with the change, which can be traumatic in itself.
BTW, "mongoloid" is now considered highly offensive, both to the child and to Asians generally. It's kind of a no-no, especially around DS families.
<< I don't think anyone can say this one way or the other. That is a different issue. I would bet that the probability that they would hire a woman to do this is around 98%.>>
Nope, lots of males in the field, at least here in Ontario. As the child matures, they develop physical capacities that often call for forms of physical restraint. Our friend is short, stocky and powerfully built, but he was once knocked down with one punch by his son, in a period of extreme (and uncharacteristic) agitation.