Growing up with parents who have learning difficulties /
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| Author / Creator: | Booth, Timothy A., 1947- |
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| Imprint: | London : New York : Routledge, 1998. |
| Description: | x, 222 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3193299 |
| Summary: | Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficultiesuses 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.<br> <br> 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 222 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-222). |
| ISBN: | 0415166551 041516656X |