Caught in the Child Protection Net

Parents with Intellectual Disabilities: Past, Present and Futures

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 171-187

  McConnell, David ^a   Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, Hanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Brutal reality for parents labeled with intellectual disability having their children taken from them by child protection authorities; Caught in the child protection net; Child protection concerns; Child protection process and outcomes; Inadequate protection perceived risk of abuse; Inhumane and expensive administration process allegedly feeble minded mother permanently separated from her child; Parents with intellectual disabilities experiencing child protection processes as bewildering and unjust; Parents with intellectual disabilities shortchanged with respect to justice in child protection system and courts; Perceived complexity and intensity of parents' childcare workload; Previous child removal newborn at risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886182798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660393.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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