LA Times reporter Sonja Sharp shares "three things I wish nondisabled parents would learn from disabled parents like us."
Children & Families
Nonprofits were less helpful than expected, but Florida school districts helped a journalist find families.
For pregnant individuals facing multiple years in prison, a program offers unexpected hope and an alternative pathway.
This story is part of a series produced for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Emily DeRuy reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Other work by her includes:
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In the second part of this multi-part series, we explore, step-by-step, the process for diverting pregnant people out of LA County’s women’s jail, moving them into housing and toward independence.
Though disabled women now get pregnant and give birth at the same rate as nondisabled ones, modern medicine has largely turned its back on them.
The Eviction Lab's Peter Hepburn joined attorney Tina Rosales and Bloomberg CityLab's Kriston Capps to discuss the eviction crisis.
UCLA study answers some of the questions expectant mothers have had since early in the pandemic, when so much was unknown.
Birthing parents report isolation during the pandemic and stress after the closure of the labor and delivery center in Fort Bragg last year, revealing strains on maternal healthcare in Mendocino County.