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Time away from “smelling the roses”: where do mothers raising children with disabilities find the time to work?
- Author:
- BRANDON Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 65(4), August 2007, pp.667-679.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Using the Australian Time Use survey (TUS), this study examined time allocation among working parents raising children with disabilities. Findings showed that raising children with disabilities reduced the time working mothers had for leisure activities, but increased the time for socializing activities. Consistent with the literature, the latter effect probably reflects the special need of working mothers raising children with disabilities for strong social networks offering regular support. While a mother's time for personal care was reduced by a child with a disability, a father's time for personal care was unaffected. Thus, mothers were relatively more disadvantaged than fathers in terms of total time for themselves. This study offers new knowledge on the impact of childhood disability on working parents’ time for personal care and leisure, activities that can improve their psychological and physical well-being.
Sexualities: personal lives and social policy
- Editor:
- CARABINE Jean
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Open University
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the choices that people make about their sexuality and how these can transform their personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. The authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy.They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our personal lives, but also highlight how social policy might be used as an instrument of positive change.These processes are explored through such issues as: the significance of gender relations and identities in normative constructions of heterosexual marriage, the nuclear family and parenthood; the regulatory effects of policy-making on young people’s sexual experiences and activity and their strategies of resistance; and the normative standards of sexuality and the extent to which these have marginalized and silenced the sexuality of disabled people.
Social problem-solving abilities and distress among family members assuming a caregiving role
- Authors:
- ELLIOTT Timothy R., SHEWCHUK Richard M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Health Psychology, 8(2), May 2003, pp.149-163.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on American research to examine the relation of social problem-solving abilities to distress experienced by carers of family members who had recently incurred a severe physical disability. Carers (11 men and 49 women) completed measures of problem-solving, depression and health, while the family member participated in an inpatient rehabilitation programme. Correlational analyses indicated that a negative problem orientation was significantly predictive of caregiver distress, regardless of the degree of physical impairment of the care recipient. Women reported more distress on several measures than men, and disability severity was also associated with depression and impaired social functioning. Carers with a greater negative orientation may be at risk to develop psychological and health problems upon assuming a caregiver role. Discusses the results in light of theoretical models of social problem-solving, and implications are presented for psychological interventions and for health policy concerning family caregivers and their care recipients.
Keeping it in the family: caregiving in Australian-Greek families
- Authors:
- MORSE Carol A., MESSERMERI-KIANIDIS Voula
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 34(3/4), 2001, pp.299-314.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Family-based caregiving refers to the daily provision of help to a co-resident family relative with the usual activities of daily living, custody and protection of a dependent relative at risk of self-injury, and support of a person with physical, developmental and/or mental disability or frailty due to ageing. Many reports from western studies refer to the caregiving burdens, stress and strains. A common view of migrant peoples is that they 'look after their own' to a greater extent than do English-speaking groups. A study was carried out with 300 Australian-Greek families in Melbourne where 150 were providing family-based caregiving, and these were age and gender matched with friends or acquaintances who had no such duties. Most care was provided by women. A wide range of disabilities and illnesses were receiving help and care in the caregiving families among care recipients aged from childhood to advanced old age. Distinct evidence of caregiving burden was found to a significant degree. Gender differences were apparent in the type of disorders managed, in the perceived severity of caregiving duties provided and in the total range of activities engaged in. The ethno-specific community organisations and extended family networks played little part in providing assistance to caregivers which challenges the myths of a close-knit migrant community looking after its own.
The paradox of discriminatory practices as a means of emancipatory strategies
- Author:
- HELMIUS Gisela
- Journal article citation:
- Community Work and Family, 4(3), December 2001, pp.273-284.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Draws on a qualitative study in Sweden in which women from three generations were interviewed about their daily lives. The women studied were all born with a mobility impairment. Inspired by feminist-sociological thought, the article highlights the situation of these women with particular regard to work, education and family. The focus is on potentials for individual empowerment and emancipatory strategies. Argues that the impairment might be identified as a driving force that allows the transcending of constraints of traditional work and family gender roles.
Facts about women and men in Great Britain 1999
- Author:
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Equal Opportunities Commission
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Presents statistical abstracts on gender covering: examination achievements; modern apprenticeships; GNVQ awards; children's day care centres; economic activity by marital status; economic activity by disability status employment by occupation, ethnic origin, family type and age of youngest child; Members of Parliament; full time earnings part time earnings; members of pension schemes; individual income by source; savings and investments.
Child sexual abuse and the black disabled child
- Author:
- BERNARD Claudia
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(3), June 1999, pp.325-339.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the effects of sexual abuse on black disabled children. Focusing on black children with learning disabilities, it examines how the dimensions of race, gender, and disability compound the problems they face after sexual abuse. It is argued that the way in which black disabled children and their families interpret their experience is likely to differ from other groups of disabled children. The article concludes with some reflections on the implications for making risk assessment for black disabled children.
Introduction to social work and social welfare
- Author:
- ZASTROW Charles
- Publisher:
- Brooks/Cole
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 687p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Pacific Grove, CA
Student text book which uses a social problems approach to social welfare and social work in the United States. Includes chapters on: social work as a profession and career; poverty and public welfare; emotional problems and counselling; family services; sexuality; drug abuse; crime and juvenile delinquency; education and school social work; racism and equal rights; sexism; older people; medical social services; physical and mental disabilities; and social work practice.