Women with disabilities often talk about establishing intimate relationships, but they receive strong messages that they are not suitable intimate partners. The quality of interpersonal and marital ...

Purpose is an aspect of disability that many people struggle with. Developmental psychologist Erik Erikson believed that adults’ lives are enriched by the knowledge that they are contributing to their ...

The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a combination of family care and paid assistance, or exclusively ...

When two people with a disability fall in love, it’s not a tragedy, compromise or some inspirational story waiting to happen. It’s just love — messy, beautiful, human love. The world, however, doesn’t ...

In her doctoral thesis in public health, Anyango interviewed 11 women with disabilities who have suffered from violence in close relationships, interviewed 18 professionals in support institutions, ...

I’m a 40-year-old man and never married, although I was in a committed relationship for about ten years with the same woman. We didn’t marry mainly because her father didn’t approve of me. I’m ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...