Growing up with parents who have learning difficulties / Tim Booth and Wendy Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booth, Timothy A., 1947-

Contributor:

Booth, Wendy, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parenting.

Learning disabled.

Parents with disabilities.

Children of parents with disabilities.

Physical Description:

x, 222 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties uses a life-story approach to present new evidence about how children from such families manage the transition to adulthood, and about the longer-term outcomes of such an upbringing. It offers a view of parental competence as a social attribute rather than an individual skill, assessing the implications for institutional policies and practices. The authors address the notion of children having to parent their disabled parents and argue for a shift in emphasis from protecting children to supporting families. This innovative book provides a fresh approach to a subject rife with prejudice and challenges us to think again about many taken-for-granted ideas about the process of parenting and the needs of children. It also demonstrates the power of narrative research and its capacity for bringing alive people's experience in a way that enables us to better understand their lives.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Doing the research

3. Talking with Danny Avebury

4. What became of the children we used to be

5. Risk, resilience and competence

6. Still family

7. Two lives revisited

8. The myth of the upside down family

9. System abuse and the limits of advocacy

10 Where next?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-222).

ISBN:

1-134-70696-0

1-280-15803-4

0-203-98139-1

1-134-70697-9

9780203981399

OCLC:

475959140