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Direct linkBooth, Tim; Booth, Wendy – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2004
This report summarizes the findings of a study of court files relating to care proceedings involving parents with an intellectual disability. The authors found that 15.3% of all children subject to care applications in the year 2000 in the courts studied had at least one parent with an intellectual disability. They also found that these children…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Mental Retardation, Courts, Court Litigation
