I believe in communities of people supporting one another.
How do you get them to do that?
In the past, disabled people had only family, charity, and church to rely upon for their care. It was often substandard. The medical costs of caring for many kinds of disability are enough to destroy a family financially -- it is too much of a burden.
It was only when the federal government decided to impose standards of care, and require businesses to be accessible, and to make reasonable accomodation on the job, and so forth, that disabled people have had any hope of being seen as something other than a burden and an untouchable class.
The solution you suggest, I'm sad to say, won't cut it, not by far.
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Date: 2004-04-23 12:29 pm (UTC)How do you get them to do that?
In the past, disabled people had only family, charity, and church to rely upon for their care. It was often substandard. The medical costs of caring for many kinds of disability are enough to destroy a family financially -- it is too much of a burden.
It was only when the federal government decided to impose standards of care, and require businesses to be accessible, and to make reasonable accomodation on the job, and so forth, that disabled people have had any hope of being seen as something other than a burden and an untouchable class.
The solution you suggest, I'm sad to say, won't cut it, not by far.