Category: Pregnancy and Parenting
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A Small Step Forward for Blind Parents
I wrote a while back about the multi-layered and inexcusable discrimination many disabled parents face. There’s nothing about having a disability that makes someone less capable of parenting. That feels too obvious to even say, but it’s a truth, obvious or not, that needs to be repeated over and over until people get it, until…
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Parenting and Disability: We need to keep talking about it.
Disabled folks often get conflicting messages about what people think we can do. ON one hand, we’re seen as superhuman – as supercrips of the highest order – or as childlike and incapable – or worse, less than human. I recently wrote about the emerging voices of disabled parents (including the voices that aren’t being…
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Amplifying Disabled Parents’ Voices: The White House Forum and Beyond
In thirty-five states (and the District of Columbia), children can’t trust that their healthy, happy family will be able to stay together if one or both of their parents is disabled. That means that in almost three quarters of the U.S. the law allows for children to be removed from their parents based on parental…