Comments on: An angry breed: Handle with care http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/10/19/an-angry-breed-handle-with-care/ Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:57:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Junelle Rhodes http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/10/19/an-angry-breed-handle-with-care/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Junelle Rhodes Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:24:34 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2007/10/19/an-angry-breed-handle-with-care/#comment-271 I just wanted to provide another side to this article. At no stage do carers want to reduce the rights of people with a disability or requiring care. However there are two sides to this equation and we need to also ensure that carers are supported and recognised. Here in Australia there is no protection of employment based upon being a carer, too many days off can and has meant you lose your job. Carers are forced to sell their homes or face the loss of any government benefit. Carers are also desperate about the lack of future options for them and the people they care for. This is not an us and them argument, it's about supporting both sides. A person with a disability with no rights has an impact on carers, a carer with no rights impacts directly upon the person they care for. I just wanted to provide another side to this article. At no stage do carers want to reduce the rights of people with a disability or requiring care. However there are two sides to this equation and we need to also ensure that carers are supported and recognised.

Here in Australia there is no protection of employment based upon being a carer, too many days off can and has meant you lose your job. Carers are forced to sell their homes or face the loss of any government benefit. Carers are also desperate about the lack of future options for them and the people they care for.

This is not an us and them argument, it’s about supporting both sides. A person with a disability with no rights has an impact on carers, a carer with no rights impacts directly upon the person they care for.

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