ABSTRACT
'Against the odds:
growing up with parents who have learning difficulties'
Tim Booth and
Wendy Booth
Mental Retardation,
38(1), February, 2000, pp. 1-14
This article draws
on a recently-completed study which set out to explore how people
who were brought up in a family headed by a parent or parents
with learning difficulties managed the transition to adulthood.
Using evidence from in-depth interviews, the authors provide
an assessment of how the now-adult children came through what
would generally be seen as a risk-filled upbringing. Despite
the problems they encountered in their childhood, many of which
originated outside the home, most of the informants had maintained
a valued relationship with their family and remained close to
their mother.
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