Case Study Mikaela Sinnett

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Mikaela Sinnett’s mother experienced the “the gaze of the state” because she going to raise her child while being blind and therefore considered unable to parent by the state. The state put Mikaela into foster care because of the state's lack of knowledge on ability and the clear discrimination of disabled alternative parenting. The child welfare system intruded on her family by taking away their agency as parents. The system perpetuates ableism and the miseducation that disability is correlated with the mistreatment of children.
Angela Frederick managed to parent her two-year-old child by attaching bells to her child's clothing, wearing her baby attached to clothing, and using syringes to measure medicines. She also had a talking thermometer