This book was made possible by the generous and consistent support of my research staff at the Richard Crossman Chair of Social Welfare and Social Planning at the University of Haifa. I am grateful to colleagues and graduate students who share with me my thoughts about the book and have offered their comments and suggestions. I have been fortunate to learn a great deal from my recent contacts with KESHER regarding their efforts to advocate for new family-support legislation. Special thanks to Susan Parish and Michal Grinstein-Weiss, then at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for involving me in their secondary analysis of the 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to determine the extent of disability-based net worth and income gap among US households.1 The end result was not only a joint article but a recognition of the importance of assets and income status among families with members with disability. I am thankful to Gerard Quinn for his insightful thoughts about the CRPD, and particularly Articles 12 and 19, which were helpful in the writing of Chapter 8. I would like to thank my colleagues with whom I informally discussed some of the ideas examined in the book. Finally, I am grateful to my family for facilitating this important project, and in particular my wife Shula for her tremendous support.