How Can We Ensure The Rights of Parents With Disabilities?

How Can We Ensure The Rights of Parents With Disabilities?
by Kristina Chew , originally published on Care2.com  

NEWS FROM OUR AUSTRALIA COUNTERPART 

What could be worse than to have your child taken away by someone who tells you that you, the parent, are not capable or raising her or him? What could be worse than to have your child taken away by someone who tells you that you, the parent, are not capable or raising her or him?

Just such a forced removal of a child happens at an “alarming rate” to parents with intellectual disabilities in Australia, the country’s ABC News reports. Human rights and disability rights advocates assert that such removals of children into state care are “wrong” and “inhumane” yet continue to occur due to “entrenched prejudice.”

Just such a forced removal of a child happens at an “alarming rate” to parents with intellectual disabilities in Australia, the country’s ABC News reports. Human rights and disability rights advocates assert that such removals of children into state care are “wrong” and “inhumane” yet continue to occur due to “entrenched prejudice.”

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