Disabled Parents Losing Right to Parent their Own Children in America while Foster Parent Recruitment Seeks “Imperfect Parents”

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by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

Parents with disabilities face challenges in raising their children. One challenge that many may not have expected, however, is the right simply to BE a parent.

A recent article by the Pacific Standard describes the “uphill battle” that parents with disabilities face to keep their own children. The statistics cited are alarming:

Research indicates that parents with disabilities and their families are overrepresented in the child welfare system.

While parents with disabilities make up only 6.2 percent of all parents in the United States, a recent study …read more

Source: Health Impact News

    

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