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Earlier this year, the U.S. state of Rhode Island’s foster care system was in the spotlight because of the death of a 9-year-old child in state care. A searing report on the death from the Child Advocate blamed the state’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families for failing to step in. It also revealed the extent to which the well-being of foster children depends on the capacity of their foster parents. This is especially true for foster kids with serious medical conditions. As part of The Public's Radio series Living In Limbo, this segment features one family working to get the care…
Kenya: Handicapped children seen as a 'curse' & misfortune that certain mothers deserve, says report
New research has revealed that nearly half of Kenyan mothers with disabled babies are pressured to kill them. The report by Disability Rights International carried out over two years also found that mothers themselves are often blamed for having disabled children. The majority of the women interviewed said disabled children were considered a curse. Infanticide under Kenyan law is defined as the systematic and deliberate killing of children below one year old either at birth or afterwards. According to the Kenyan police service, there were 42 cases of infanticide in 2016. In this segment,…
This talk by Lucy Hurst-Brown from BBC Radio 4's, Four Thought series discusses the institutionalization of people with disabilities, including young people, and its effects. In the segment, Hurst-Brown shares personal experiences from her work with people with learning disabilities and the positive changes many experienced as a result of deinstitutionalization and community reintegration efforts.
However, Hurst-Brown also highlights many of the ways in which people with disabilities are still segregated from communities and from society. There are over 3,000 people with…