Last year, the surgeon general warned that parents in the United States are overwhelmed and burnt out. One group of parents is often overlooked: the 1 in 15 with disabilities. Author Jessica Slice, ...

For parents of disabled children, figuring out how to navigate services and support can be difficult. The book "Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child" is a roadmap offering ...

When my daughter was a few months old, I joined a group for new moms. We brought our babies and talked for a couple of hours each Wednesday in a community center in Oakland, California. I was an ...

The new anthology book "Accessing Parenthood: Stories by and About Parents With Disabilities" calls attention to an often overlooked segment of the disabled population. The book is thin, a mere 124 ...

My two-year-old son Noah glanced over to me at his dance class last week and said, “Daddy! Use both hands.” It was circle time and parents and toddlers were participating in a welcome song that ...

After I gave birth to my first child almost ten years ago, I was a mess. I had a very specific image of the kind of mother I would be — somehow both obsessively devoted to my child and effortlessly ...

For the past year, my husband David has been on parental leave with our second baby. We live in Canada, and he took the full 61 weeks available to him. When our first child was born in 2017, David ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Parents of severely disabled children say they are desperate for state leaders to expand a new program that pays parents to provide certain care to their children. A KATU ...