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Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World (Large Print Edition)

Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World (Large Print Edition)

Slice, Jessica

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral ParentingGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0807019232
ISBN13: 9780807019238
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.91
Height: 1.02 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Beautiful and razor-sharp...cannot recommend highly enough.
--Ann Helen Petersen, Culture Study

Cuts boldly and beautifully through that silence, inviting readers to imagine what our world might look like if we met every family where they are.
--Vogue

A beautiful, transformative book about being a parent in a world that rejects frailty and weakness.--Rachel Aviv, staff writer at the New Yorker

A paradigm shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting--the joys, stigma, and discrimination--and how disability culture holds the key to transforming the way we all raise our kids

In Unfit Parent, Slice debunks the exclusionary myths that deem disabled people unfit to care for their children, instead showing how disabled parents and disability culture provide valuable lessons for rejecting societal rules that encourage perfectionism and lead to isolation.

Combining her personal experiences with interviews, research-backed evidence, and disability studies, Slice shares insight into what the landscape is like for disabled parents--one that is scattered with unpredictable obstacles and inaccessible barriers, including:

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