Ask Mr. Dad: An uneven playing field for parents with disabilities

Excerpt from: Herald Online (click for full article)

 

First, there are more than 4 million parents in the U.S. who have disabilities and children under 18. Second, those parents are far more likely than non-disabled parents to have their children removed from their home or to lose their parental rights.

I read an eye-opening report from The National Council on Disability (ncd.gov), called “Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children.”

The report shows that when one or both parents have a psychiatric or cognitive disability – which could include your traumatic brain injury – removal rates can be as high as 40 to 80 percent. In addition, “Parents who are deaf or blind report extremely high rates of child removal and loss of parental rights.”

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/11/30/4450927/ask-mr-dad-an-uneven-playing-field.html#storylink=cpy

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