There’s a welcome post at Change.org’s Autism site.
Meg Evans writes about a recent legislative victory for families with disabled parents in the State of Maryland.
Evans writes:
“Governor Martin O’Malley has signed new legislation, following its approval by the state House and Senate, to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities in Maryland family law proceedings by ensuring that an individual’s mental or physical disability cannot, in itself, be sufficient grounds for denying custody of a child to that individual.”
The victory above would seem self-evident but alas, all too often people with disabilities are denied the rights described above.
There is still a ghost in these United States–a Victorian figure replete with Dickensian chains and dark robes. Its the ghost of Eugenics and it haunts 21st century America as surely as the ghost of Christmas past.
Accordingly the news described above is no small matter. This represents a strong “shot across the bow” that families with disabilities are “real families” pure and simple.
I take heart from stories like these.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 