ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a review of theory and evidence about parenting with disability understood within the sociocultural context of being parents and being disabled in 21st-century societies. It begins by presenting the international human rights framework which asserts the rights of persons with disabilities to parenthood. The majority of the literature on parenting with disabilities comes from high-income countries. In high-income countries, researchers have utilized population and administrative datasets to understand prevalence and the characteristics of parents with disabilities compared to other parents in the population. Pregnancy and birth outcomes for women with disabilities have typically served as proxy data for prevalence of parenthood for parents with disabilities due to the availability of maternal and infant datasets in many countries and the lack of a reliable and consistent way to determine fatherhood in population data. Deaf parents preferred spoken language for their children.
