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International Journal for Population Data Science • Vol 9 • No 2
Maternal disability and newborn discharge to social services: a population-based study
July 2024 • Claire Grant, Yona Lunsky, Astrid Guttmann, Simone N. Vigod, Isobel Sharpe, Kinwah Fung, Hilary K. Brown
IntroductionRemoving a child from their family is the option of last resort for social services. However, decisions to place children into care are occurring more frequently and earlier in children's lives, with newborn discharge to social services being a particular concern due to the effects of mother-newborn separations on child development. Women with disabilities face negative assumptions about their parenting capacity, but little is known about their rates of newborn discharge to social services. ObjectivesT…
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