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89 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 8 • no 1 • 89–104 • © Policy Press 2019 Print ISSN 2046 7435 • Online ISSN 2046 7443 • https://doi.org/10.1332/096278917X15015139344438 Accepted for publication 22 July 2017 • First published online 02 August 2017 article Comparative life experiences: young adult siblings with and without disabilities’ different understandings of their respective life experiences during young adulthood Ariella Meltzer, a.meltzer@unsw.edu.au University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Research shows that siblings of people
.morris@sheffield.ac.uk University of Sheffield, UK Joanne Warner, J.Warner@kent.ac.uk University of Kent, UK This article explores how the child protection system currently operates in England. It analyses how policy and practice has developed, and articulates the need for an alternative approach. It draws from the social model as applied in the fields of disability and mental health, to begin to sketch out more hopeful and progressive possibilities for children, families and communities. The social model specifically draws attention to the economic, environmental and cultural barriers
undertake housework when their wives developed dementia, the author concludes that gender inequality in domestic labour tends to persist, irrespective of cognitive disability. Introduction Although Giddens (1992) had envisaged the emergence of highly democratic and egalitarian relationships, the empirical evidence has suggested that progress towards gender equality within (heterosexual) couples has been slow (Arber and Ginn, 1995; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 1995; Sullivan, 2006). As a result, despite increased participation in the labour market, women continue to
relationship between memorable life events (MLEs) and disclosure of sexual abuse in childhood. The findings derive from a larger thematic and phenomenological analysis of MLEs across the life course of 12 adults with self-reported histories of child sexual abuse (CSA). Participants were recruited from the UK, but represent a diverse group in terms of age, gender, country of origin, sexuality and disability. In-depth interviews and Life History Calendars (LHCs) were used to collect a range of contextual and event-based data. Varied and unique MLEs were found to promote
. key words motherhood • disability • counter-narrative • stigma • narrative research To cite this article: Lappeteläinen, A., Sevón, E. and Vehkakoski, T. (2018) Celebrating diverse motherhood’: physically disabled women’s counter-narratives to their stigmatised identity as mothers, Familes, Relationships and Societies, 7(3): 499–514, DOI: 10.1332/204674317X15034137417334 Introduction Motherhood can be claimed to be ‘one of the most dominant cultural narratives’, as it includes strong and relatively permanent normative ideals about how to behave in the
, Relationships and Societies examine these links and gaps between the ideal and the real, and how this can lead to normative change, in a range of relationship arenas and national contexts, from Australia, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. They highlight ‘real’ practice, which often disrupts fairytale forms: 1. Loving relationships that escape being determined by sex or gender, intimate bonds that defy the conventional progression to sexual relationship, and having children. 2. Disability is not the family tragedy that the conventional fairytale
-home support for their child more highly (Benson and Dewey, 2008). Fathers report less positive experiences in parenting their child with ASD (Kayfitz et al, 2010) and fathers of children with disabilities (including ASD) score lower in seeking and receiving help (Sullivan, 2002; Altiere and von Kluge, 2009). Fathers of children with ASD, on the whole, appear more sensitive to their child’s label, less confident in their parenting abilities and less likely to seek and receive support in their parenting efforts compared with mothers. Doucet (2008), from her study of the
341 Families Relationships and Societies • vol 8 • no 2 • 341–344 • © Policy Press 2019 Print ISSN 2046-7435 • Online ISSN 2046-7443 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204674319X15583478001543 Accepted for publication 24 June 2019 • First published online 27 June 2019 open space My compañero1 Otto Florencia Herrera, florencia.herrera@udp.cl @ottoelperroguia (Instagram) Academic, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile key words guide dog • visual disability • mobility support • Chile To cite this article: Herrera, F. (2019) My compañero Otto, Families Relationships
the literature explores what is known about the particular needs of this group of carers. Centrally, it appears that grandparents form the largest proportion of kinship carers in the UK. Many studies focusing on this group highlight the prevalence of ill health or disability in this population, as well as the social challenges that accompany the resumption of a parenting role that is anomalous with their age-related peers. Put another way, this cohort reported more limitations on their daily activities, and poorer emotional and physical health, compared with
moral orientation; that is to say, it refers to values such as love, commitment, responsibility, empathy and interdependence. As such, care refers to the particular circumstances of those who by virtue of age (very young or very old), frailty, illness or disability need forms of support, and to those family members, partners, friends and/or paid care workers who support them, as well as to the universal forms of greater or lesser reciprocity that exist between family members, partners and friends. Across this spectrum of care, the giving and receiving of care
