The concept that a child’s disability can delay or prevent emancipation is not a new one. In fact, it has been part of the decisional law for decades. Moreover, the parties cannot contract away the ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Every year in the United States, over 100,000 children develop a serious illness or disability, which adds to the more than 2 million children already living with these ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the ...

Two-thirds of families who have a child with a disability told Stanford researchers that they struggled to meet basic needs, such as food, housing, utilities, child care and health care. Since 2020, ...

More attention to the plight of families with disabled children is clearly warranted–in clinical practice, in research, and in the policy arena. The general message for clinicians is to be aware of ...

Among society's oldest and most destructive biases is the belief that people with disabilities are presumptively unfit to produce and care for children. Only a century ago, a majority of states ...