[NFB-Idaho] Details on Idaho's current Right to Parent Laws

[Laine Amoureux]

Per the boards request this afternoon for more information on Idaho's Right
to Parent Law(s):


Idaho Statutes - Domestic Relations and Family



16-1501B Adoption of children -
https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title16/T16CH15/SECT16-1501B/

32-717 Custody of children and best interest -
https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title32/T32CH7/SECT32-717/

32-1005 Custody of children after separation of parents -
https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title32/T32CH7/SECT32-717/



There is great information from the 2012 Rocking the Cradle report and
subsequent tool kits, information, etc. at the National Council on
Disability: Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with
Disabilities and Their Children --
https://www.ncd.gov/publications/2012/Sep272012/



Some up-to-date perspective offered here - Human Rights brief:
http://hrbrief.org/2018/01/rocking-cradle-rights-parents-disabilities/


And the article that lead me to find tht Idaho was the first state to
include protections for parents with disabilities:
http://blogs.rj.org/rac/2014/06/02/double-booked-parenting-with-a-disability/


Laine Amoureux M.S.
amoureux AT Consulting LLC
208-297-3341