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Growing up with Parents Who Have Learning Difficulties
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| This informative book uses narrative research to portray the experiences of adult children of parents with developmental disabilities. Growing up with Parents with Learning Difficulties offers insight into the issues of what it means to have parents with developmental disabilities and the affects on children's well-being and adjustment in later life. Because the research participants were adults, this research is able to offer information about the longer-term consequences of growing up in a household headed by parents with developmental disabilities. The authors of the book stress parental competence as a social attribute rather than an individual skill. The book offers a critique of institutional policies and practices, challenges the idea of "parentified children," and argues for emphasis of family support over child protection. |
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