Career Loss While Raising Disabled Children: Challenging Misconceptions and Advocating for Support

All parents have one thing in common when it comes to balancing work and family life - lack of childcare. Yet, somehow, a recent narrative has turned this struggle into an issue that can feel almost exclusive to parents raising disabled children. In the U.S. the lack of affordable childcare is a systemic issue that affects all parents across the board. The cost of childcare is currently outpacing inflation by more than 3%, which is making childcare significantly less accessible for all families. However, if we are going to related lack of accessible childcare to raising disabled children, we have a responsibility as parents to acknowledge that this roadblock is not a parenting issue - rather it is a disability issue set in place by systemic ableism that will affect our children for the entirety of their lives. Reframing this perspective can help us see the systemic ableism that is forcing families like ours out of the workforce, and can help us see commonalities with other parents of non-disabled children.

 

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