Last year, the surgeon general warned that parents in the United States are overwhelmed and burnt out. One group of parents is often overlooked: the 1 in 15 with disabilities. Author Jessica Slice, ...

When my daughter was a few months old, I joined a group for new moms. We brought our babies and talked for a couple of hours each Wednesday in a community center in Oakland, California. I was an ...

When she was younger, before she became disabled, Jessica Slice would occasionally wonder what parenthood might look like someday — how a child (or two, or three) would fit within her familiar ...

After I gave birth to my first child almost ten years ago, I was a mess. I had a very specific image of the kind of mother I would be — somehow both obsessively devoted to my child and effortlessly ...

Jessica Slice sits for a photo in her Toronto home in April 2025. Mothers Day often becomes a day of reflection for many: how did my parents' impact me? How will I impact my child, if I have one or ...

I’m Anita Rao. Jessica Slice and David Yourdon are an interabled couple with two kids. With Jessica’s physical disability, their parenting journey has been one of adaptation and creativity — often in ...

In parent-tot music class, the parents coo over each other’s babies while maintaining an audible/internal dialogue that runs something like this: Your baby is adorable! But not as adorable as mine.

Slice is the author of Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World Slice with her daughter. Slice is the author of Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World ...

For the past year, my husband David has been on parental leave with our second baby. We live in Canada, and he took the full 61 weeks available to him. When our first child was born in 2017, David ...