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Exceptional childhoods, unexceptional children: growing up with parents who have learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 40p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report presenting an overview of the findings from a study of now-adult children who grew up in a family where at least one of the parents had learning difficulties.
Parental competence and parents with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 1(2), May 1996, pp.81-86.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Parental adequacy is widely seen as a function of individual parenting skills. This assumptions renders parents with learning difficulties vulnerable to discriminatory treatment in child protection work. A presumption of incompetence leads practitioners to focus on the parents' deficits and intensifies concerns about the welfare of the children. Using case material from a recent study, the authors argue for a wider conception of good-enough parenting that takes into account the external pressures that impact on family functioning.