maternal advocacy
Maternal advocacy names the sustained, often unpaid labour mothers and primary caregivers perform to secure safety, access, services, and dignity for children. It includes documentation, escalation, emotional labour, system navigation, and the burden of being treated as both essential and suspect.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…