Francis Leslie
Fam Court Rev. 2019 Jan;57(1):21-36. doi: 10.1111/fcre.12395. Epub 2019 Jan 20.
People with intellectual disabilities face proceedings to terminate their parental rights with disturbing regularity, with protecting the interests of offspring the primary justification. Although protecting children from harm is surely critical, these termination proceedings involve problematic assumptions about how fitness to parent is understood, how parenting is legally constructed, and what nondiscrimination requires for parents with intellectual disabilities. Using Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a model, it suggests two alternatives to the all-or-nothing termination processes in place today that might better realize the enjoyment of legal capacity as parents on an equal basis with others for people with intellectual disabilities: limited terminations analogous to limited guardianships and supported parenting along the lines of supported decision making proposed in the CRPD.
智障人士面临终止其亲权程序的情况极为频繁，令人不安，其主要理由是保护后代的利益。虽然保护儿童免受伤害固然至关重要，但这些终止程序涉及一些有问题的假设，涉及如何理解为人父母的能力、如何从法律上构建育儿以及对智障父母而言非歧视要求是什么。以《残疾人权利公约》第十二条为范例，本文提出了两种替代当今非此即彼的终止程序的方案，这可能会更好地让智障人士在与其他人平等的基础上切实享有为人父母的法律行为能力：类似于有限监护权的有限终止以及按照《残疾人权利公约》提议的辅助性决策方式提供支持性育儿。
