- ABSTRACT
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- 'Men in the lives of mothers with intellectual
disabilities'
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- Tim Booth & Wendy Booth
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual
Disabilities
- 15(3), 2002, 187-199
This paper examines the part played by
men in the lives of mothers with intellectual disabilities. The
study involved secondary analysis of data from three earlier
studies of parenting by people with intellectual disabilities
undertaken by the authors. The data challenge the widespread
assumption that men are either exploitative or bring troubles
of their own to relationships. The findings show that this view
presents only a part of the picture and that supportive men were
in the majority among the families surveyed. Men's contribution
came mostly in the form of increments to their family's human
capital rather than through the traditional breadwinner role.
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