RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Some advantages to having a parent with a disability
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 31
OP 34
DO 10.1136/medethics-2015-102666
VO 42
IS 1
A1 Adam Cureton
YR 2016
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/1/31.abstract
AB Fertility specialists, adoption agents, judges and others sometimes take themselves to have a responsibility to fairly adjudicate conflicts that may arise between the procreative and parenting interests of people with disabilities and the interests that their children or potential children have to be nurtured, cared for and protected. An underlying assumption is that having a disability significantly diminishes a person's parenting abilities. My aim is to challenge the claim that having a disability tends to make someone a bad parent by arguing that the interests of prospective parents with disabilities and the interests of their children or potential children are often aligned and mutually supporting.