Parents with disabilities face bias in care-giving abilities
On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Monday, December 24, 2012. In a new report titled “Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children” by the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency, parents with disabilities continue to face bias and difficulties in retaining and often gaining custody of their very own children. The report states that this outcome is completely contrary to the intent of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the strides that such an Act has made in the years since implementation. In one instance, a Missouri couple where