Global Day of Parents

With the UN having proclaimed 1 June to be the Global Day of Parents, COFACE-Disability wants to call special attention to the situation of parents of children with disabilities. Mothers, especially, have a difficult time as it is usually they who have to double up the job of parent with that of family carer.

It is a role that takes a toll on their personal lives, partner relationship, health and social life. It is also usually mothers who are faced with cutting down or stopping work, with the personal and financial impacts that brings (for the family in the immediate term, and for their pension later on).

The Global Day of Parents is a good time to maximize awareness about what learning to live with a disability can mean for a family, and to demand social solidarity that will give parents of a disabled child the same opportunities as others.

And above all, COFACE-Disability believes that parents must be given the choice to help their disabled child(ren) through outreach services providing appropriate assistance and support. Coface Disability argues, too, that recognition must be given to family caregiving through a range of measures for... Read the full press release