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Ana María Rio-Poncela; Susana Rojas-Pernia – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Backgroud: Despite the advancements in the rights of persons with disabilities in Western countries, the motherhood of women with intellectual disabilities remains scarcely visible. The approval of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) and its subsequent ratification by the Spanish Government (2008) recalls the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Intellectual Disability, Civil Rights, Parent Child Relationship
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Bachrach, Tammy – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
This multiple case study explores the phenomena of being raised by parents with intellectual disabilities from the adult child's perspective. Autoethnographic data was collected from the author and 4 non-disabled adults who were raised by mothers who had intellectual disabilities. The significance of the parent's disability, parent/child…
Descriptors: Mothers, Intellectual Disability, Parents with Disabilities, Child Rearing
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Sigurjónsdóttir, Hanna Björg; Rice, James Gordon – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: The aim was to investigate the role of measured intellectual function in framing parents as 'unfit' in child custody deprivation cases. Method: Grounded theory was used to analyse a national sample of custody deprivation cases in Iceland 2002-2014. Results: The terminology used to evaluate and describe the intellectual and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Parent Rights, Parents with Disabilities