Unfit Parent
A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World
Published on 15. April 2025
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-8070-1324-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Navigating the joys, stigma, and discrimination of disabled parenting-and how the solutions offered by disability culture can transform the way we all raise our kids"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston, MA
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
428 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8070-1324-3 (9780807013243)
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04/2025
Beacon Press
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Person
Jessica Slice is a disabled mother, author, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Times’s Modern Love column, in Alice Wong’s bestselling Disability Visibility, The Washington Post, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan, among others. She is co-author, with Caroline Cupp, of Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled and This is How We Play: A Celebration of Disability and Adaptation. Follow her online at jessicaslice.com.
Content
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Disability & Me (& You)
CHAPTER 2
We, Parents
CHAPTER 3
Deciding to Parent
CHAPTER 4
The First Week
CHAPTER 5
Parenting at Home
CHAPTER 6
In the World
CHAPTER 7
Medical Care
CHAPTER 8
Child Protective Services
CHAPTER 9
Ableism
EPILOGUE
March 2024
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
CHAPTER 1
Disability & Me (& You)
CHAPTER 2
We, Parents
CHAPTER 3
Deciding to Parent
CHAPTER 4
The First Week
CHAPTER 5
Parenting at Home
CHAPTER 6
In the World
CHAPTER 7
Medical Care
CHAPTER 8
Child Protective Services
CHAPTER 9
Ableism
EPILOGUE
March 2024
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index