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Parents with any kind of disability are much more likely to have some type of interaction with the child welfare system than other parents. This means they are more likely than other parents to be reported for child abuse and neglect and more likely to have abuse or neglect substantiated by child welfare workers. They are also more likely to have their children placed in foster care and more likely to permanently lose their parental rights.

More than one-third of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities have an interaction with the child welfare system within four years of their child's birth, and about one-fifth of all children in foster care have a parent with some type of disability.

However, there is little evidence that parents with disabilities abuse or neglect their children at higher rates than anyone else. Instead, there's evidence that many young adults raised by a parent with a disability have very positive childhood experiences.

New rules that went into effect in July 2024 provide the first federal protections specifically for parents with disabilities. These new rules ban discrimination against parents and caregivers with disabilities throughout the child welfare system.

Government is changing these rules

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