Unfit Parent A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

Jessica Slice

eBook - 2025

"Beautiful and razor-sharp...cannot recommend highly enough."—Ann Helen Petersen, Culture Study"Cuts boldly and beautifully through that silence, inviting readers to imagine what our world might look like if we met every family where they are."—Vogue“A beautiful, transformative book about being a parent in a world that rejects frailty and weakness.”—Rachel Aviv, staff writer at the New YorkerA paradigm shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting—the joys, stigma, and discrimination—and how disability culture holds the key to transforming the way we all raise our kidsIn Unfit Parent, Slice debunks the exclusionary myths that deem disabled people “unfit” to care for their children, instead showin...g how disabled parents and disability culture provide valuable lessons for rejecting societal rules that encourage perfectionism and lead to isolation.Combining... more