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Why Parents with Disabilities Are Losing Custody of their Kids

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Laws designed to protect people with disabilities are failing to maintain the rights of disabled parents to take care of their children Two years ago, Erika Johnson gave birth to her first child. When she had trouble breast-feeding, a nurse soothed her by saying that many mothers find nursing hard at first. Then the nurse […]

November 9, 2016

Can Parents Lose Custody Simply Because They Are Disabled?

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Can Parents Lose Custody Simply Because They Are Disabled? Vol. 31 No. 2 By Robyn Powell Robyn Powell is Attorney Advisor at the National Council on Disability and the principal author of Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children (National Council on Disability, 2012; tinyurl.com/kqedg2p). In 2009 Kaney O’Neill, […]

November 3, 2016