Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental distress and non-cognitive skills development of adolescents; both self-reported and more objectively measured bio-measures are used to capture parental health. Overall, we demonstrate a systematic association of parental health/disability with the non-cognitive skills development of adolescents living in the same household. However, considerable heterogeneity in these associations is observed between (and within) the mother's and father's health and disability measures. Much less evident is the link between parental health/disability and adolescents' mental distress. Our findings suggest that each parent's health and disability status may be differentially associated with adolescents' non-cognitive skills development.