DisAbility And Parenting
Should DisAbled people be parents? How are DisAbled parents treated? How do the children of DisAled parents feel? This is a subject well worth discussing. So all posts on it are listed below.
How Social Services Treat DisAbled Parents
Are They Blind To The Meaning Of Parenthood?
Learning Disabled Parents Losing Children To Adoption
Why People With Learning DisAbilities Shouldn’t Have Children
Kerry Robertson’s Baby Taken Into Care in Ireland
Britain’s Smallest Mother On Life With Son Aidan, 1, Who Is Taller Than Her
Woman Whose Face Was Shot Off To Get New Magnetic Prosthetic
Kerry Robertson Gets Her Baby Back
Married Couple With Learning DisAbilities Criticise Social Services
Kerry McDougall Has Second Baby Boy
What Is It Like Being A Disabled Dad?
The Guardian Previews We Won’t Drop The Baby
A Review Of We Won’t Drop The Baby
‘I Didn’t Want Them To Take Away My Baby’
Fresh Fears For McDougall Family
Social Services Enforce Birth And Take Child Into Care
Disability And Surrogate Motherhood
Kerry and Mark McDougall Have Sons Removed
Trackbacks
- How Social Services Treat DisAbled Parents « Same Difference
- DisAbility And Parenting « Same Difference
- Are They Blind To The Meaning Of Parenthood? « Same Difference
- Motherhood Conquers All « Same Difference
- Learning Disabled Parents Losing Children To Adoption « Same Difference
- Why People With Learning DisAbilities Shouldn’t Have Children « Same Difference
- Why People With Learning DisAbilities Shouldn’t Have Children « Same Difference
- Kerry Robertson’s Baby Taken Into Care in Ireland « Same Difference
- Britain’s Smallest Mother On Life With Son Aidan, 1, Who Is Taller Than Her « Same Difference
- Woman Whose Face Was Shot Off To Get New Magnetic Prosthetic « Same Difference
- A New Book For DisAbled Parents « Same Difference
- Learning Disabled Couple Criticise Social Services After Being Forced To Give Up Children « Same Difference
- A Mother With Dwarfism Writes About Her Life « Same Difference
- We Won’t Drop The Baby « Same Difference
- What Is It Like Being A DisAbled Dad? « Same Difference
- The Guardian’s Preview Of We Won’t Drop The Baby « Same Difference
- A Review Of We Won’t Drop The Baby « Same Difference
- ‘I Didn’t Want Them To Take Away My Baby’ « Same Difference
- Brittle Bone Disease Won’t Stop Marie Andrews Being A Wonderful Mum | Same Difference
- ATOS- Reviewed By A Former Employee | Hercules space
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Hi
Please sign my petition to the Prime Minister to support disabled parents.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Disabled-Parents/
The petition reads:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to legislate to
meet the financial and social care needs and rights of disabled
parents
The needs and rights of disabled parents are currently
unrecognised by legislation, social care practice and benefit
provision. The additional costs of raising children as a
disabled parent is not accounted for with Disability Living
Allowance or Child Tax Credits. Although the government
suggests that disabled parents are supported by adult social
services this is rarely the case in practice with little form
of redress. Children’s centres regularly make specialist
provision for disabled children and yet there is no provision
or respite available for disabled parents.
The government needs to create robust guidelines and
legislation that supports disabled parents on a financial and
social care basis. The children of disabled parents can no
longer be expected to live in poverty and isolation in this
hidden family underclass.
Thank you for your support. We need 500 signitures to get the petition to
be passed to Gordan Brown so please pass this email on to your friends /
collegues.
Isabella Devani
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I have seen some families with disabled parents, but the issue is that the parents can not do work or can not do jobs as a normal person because of disability. Because of this issue they can not take care of their children as normal parents do. I do agree. Govt. of US should take serious action about this issue as some welfare organizations are doing but the work should do by the Govt.
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It’s not the “fact” that disabled parents can’t work & take care of their kids.
It’s the FACT that they are not adequately supported in order to do so.
In the UK, the large majority of disabled parents – with effectual and continued support of the state (not commenced after an arduous battle to get it, then snatched away just when it’s starting to help!) – COULD train for and do some kind of regular tax-paying work.
These enabled parents are in my opinion the best role models for ALL children – who will learn two-fold; the fact you’re disabled doesn’t mean you’re lazy and useless in the eyes of the general public – and if you can be humble yet strong enough to ask for help, lest it be given, that almost anything is possible!
God alone only knows when we’ll find that happy utopia – a then where we’re ALL first-class and capable citizens – what a wonderful world it COULD be?!
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