A blind mother’s fight to keep her child

May 30, 2015

During a divorce battle, Jessie Lorenz says, her husband challenged her competence as a parent because she’s blind

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A blind mother’s fight to keep her child

"Sometimes when you think 'blind parent,' people automatically think, 'Oh, how are you going to keep that child safe? What if she runs into traffic? What if she picks up a rock and swallows it?' said Lorenz. "And they're basing their attitudes on their own misconception about what blindness is." But those misconceptions run deep, she says. In this America Tonight excerpt, Christof Putzel explains how many blind parents lose custody of their children because they can't put up the fight Lorenz did.


 

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