In a world where women and girls constitute a significant 49.7% of the global population, their presence is paradoxically overshadowed in discussions on demographics, often leading to the violation.
When Lilly Miller was in elementary school, teachers told her parents they needed to immediately sign up their youngest daughter, who has Down syndrome, for a wait list so the state would pay for a day program when she grew up. Lilly is now 21 and has aged out of special education programs in the public schools in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas. A day program, where she would learn new job skills or flex existing ones while socializing, would cost between $1,500 and $2,000 a month, Marvin Miller said.
Dorsey-Hollins followed school guidelines and kept her home when she had a cough or a sore throat — or worse — until she was completely better. During the pandemic, schools urged parents and children to stay home at any sign of illness. Widely varying guidance on when to keep children home has only added to the confusion, which many see as a factor in the nationwide epidemic of chronic school absences.
LIKE so many heartbroken parents, the lure of a life filled with more promising career opportunities and lifestyles, plus new adventures, has taken our two beloved daughters and only children out of Ireland to different parts of the world.