disabled parent

collocation in English

meaningsofdisabledandparent

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disabled
adjective
uk
/dɪˈseɪ.bəld/us
/dɪˈseɪ.bəld/
having an illness, injury, or condition that makes it difficult to do some things that other ...
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parent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpeə.rənt/us
/ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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(Definition ofdisabledandparentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In borstal to-day there is a high percentage of boys who are from families with disabled parents.
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Those who look after mentally disabled parents are particularly at risk because, by its nature, that care is more isolated and problematic.
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The situation may not be uncommon where disabled parents with particular conditions have a disabled child.
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That is an issue for both parent carers of disabled children and disabled parents seeking people to support them in their parenting role.
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But what about the disabled teacher in a primary school or visiting disabled parents?
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The main causes of child poverty include having a lone parent or adisabledparent.
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It is known that the number of daughters looking after a physicallydisabledparentis very much greater than the number of sons doing so.
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Children with adisabledparentalready live in a family that is stressed.
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Where a service would normally be provided, for example, to adisabledparent, that service will have to be made accessible.
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An elderlydisabledparentcan no longer claim supplementary pension and will lose heating and diet allowances.
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Those children's opportunities for the future can be severely damaged because they have taken on the duty of looking after adisabledparent.
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It would enable adisabledparentto care for his or her non-disabled—or, indeed, disabled—child.
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Concern was expressed about cases where adisabledparentwas worried that her child might be removed from her and placed in local authority care.
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If you have adisabledparentor a disabled child, you have a family which must cope with the disability.
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For example, it may be reasonable for a school to have to provide a letter to adisabledparentabout a school trip in an alternative format.
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A further proviso is that a blind person who is claiming this relief must forgo the relief for a daughter looking after adisabledparentwhere that allowance is drawn.
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The case studies highlight that the needs of disabled parents are really no different from non-disabled parents.
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This fine piece of research certainly challenges many of the assumptions concerning the children of disabled parents as automatically being 'young carers'.
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In so doing the researchers acknowledge the limitations in their study, and draw our attention to the persistent under-representation of disabled fathers and disabled parents from minority ethnic communities.
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