Parents with disabilities contend with bias within the family law system, often threatening their custody and visitation rights. The overarching goal of this article is to explore the experiences of parents with disabilities involved in custody and visitation disputes and the application of the ...
One group of parents singled out more than any other for being at risk for child mal treatment are parents with intellectual disabilities. This chapter summarizes the results of our 15 years of research and clinical practice with these families. We describe (1) the parents, (2) the impact on...
Dave Shade, "Empowerment for the Pursuit of Happiness: Parents with Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act," Law and Inequality 16 (1998): 153-154.Shade D, Empowerment for the pursuit of happiness: parents with disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Law & Inequality,...
Likewise, a study of parental disability in termination of parental rights cases found that parents with disabilities were disproportionally represented in termination of parental rights (TPR) cases (Singh, Piescher, LaLiberte, Lightfoot, & Hong, 2012). Studies in other countries have also found ...
“Parents with disabilities should never lose custody of their children due to discriminatory assumptions about their abilities. The love of a parent, coupled with proper support services, can overcome a multiplicity of challenges,” said Roger Severino, Director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights....
This commentary considers the intersection of mandatory reporting in health settings and the public child protection system's treatment of parents with disabilities. Its impetus is the August 2015 technical assistance document issued jointly by the U.S. departments of Justice (DOJ) and Health and Hum...
Children of Parents with Intellectual Disabilities 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 55 作者: MA Feldman 摘要: As society moves towards supporting full inclusion of people with disabilities, questions are raised about parenting rights and competencies, and the impact of parental disabilities on ...
For instance, some follow the language of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), while others simply do not. Thus, the literature describing the intersection of disability and child welfare is not consistent over time or geographical location with respect ...
Human Rights and Social Justice: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the quiet revolution in international law On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights (UDHR) the Commonwealth Attorney General announced a national public consultation ... P We...
Federal law prohibits disability discrimination and guarantees that students with disabilities have equal access to educational opportunities, including free appropriate public education (FAPE) in public elementary and secondary schools. The parents have enlisted special education advocate Karen Mayer Cunningham...