The National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities conducts research and provides training and technical assistance to improve the lives of parents with disabilities and their families. We share our findings here on this website.

We address a range of topics such as inequities in the child welfare system, health and healthcare barriers, parenting tips and strategies, and housing and economic disparities.

The Center for Parents recognizes that parents with disabilities know what they need. We are guided by the principle "nothing about us without us."

Parents with Disabilities Data Dashboard

About 7% of parents have a disability in the U.S., yet the rights of disabled parents are continually challenged. The National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities’ Data Dashboard offers much-needed comprehensive information about who disabled parents are and what their parental rights are in each U.S. state. 

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Monika Mitra, Director of the Lurie Institute, Interviewed for Mother Jones Magazine

Lurie Institute director Monika Mitra was interviewed for Julia Métraux's articles on eugenics, sterilization, and the pregnancy rights of disabled people.

“The narrative has to change,” Mitra said, “so that disabled people have the right to be pregnant, and the right to have children—and the right not to have children.”

Read "Forced Sterilization of Disabled People Isn't a Relic of the Past" and "Pregnancy Is a Minefield When You're Disabled."

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