ABSTRACT
'Unto us a child
is born: the trials and rewards of parenthood for people with
learning difficulties'
Tim Booth and
Wendy Booth
Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities,
20(1), 1995, pp. 25-39
Very little is known
about the lives and struggles of parents with learning difficulties.
Although high rates of parenting breakdown are reported in the
literature, research has so far failed to represent their real-life
experience of parenthood. Drawing on personal stories from a
study of twenty families, this paper explores what it means to
be a parent with learning difficulties and looks at the joys
and heartaches that parenting brings.
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