{"id":554,"date":"2021-01-06T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/?p=554"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:07:06","slug":"parents-with-disabilities-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Parents with disabilities rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">published in the Republican January 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five years ago, the Department of Justice and Health and Human Services, in response to a complaint&nbsp;filed by a disabled mother,&nbsp;determined that the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families discriminated against a mother who has intellectual disabilities. &nbsp;The department felt that due to her disability, her newborn should be removed and her parental rights be terminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over time, complaints have been received from parents with other disabilities. &nbsp;For example, the state denied reasonable&nbsp;modifications&nbsp;and failed to provide equal access to its services. &nbsp;Under an&nbsp;agreementthat was reached in November, the Department of&nbsp;Children and Families \u201cwill not base decisions about removal of a child on stereotypes or generalizations about persons with disabilities, or on a parent\u2019s disability, diagnosis or intelligence measures (e.g., IQ scores) alone.\u201d &nbsp;Furthermore,&nbsp;disabled&nbsp;parents must be permitted to receive the department\u2019s services \u201cunless the parent poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though the Department of Children and Families is committed to the settlement, it denies all allegations of discrimination. &nbsp;This is considered a landmark decision protecting the rights of parents with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>published in the Republican January 2021 Five years ago, the Department of Justice and Health and Human Services, in response to a complaint&nbsp;filed by a disabled mother,&nbsp;determined that the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families discriminated against a mother who has intellectual disabilities. &nbsp;The department felt that due to her disability, her newborn should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}