Disabled men and fathering: opportunities and constraints

Kilkey, Majella; Clarke, Harriet

doi:10.1080/13668800902923738

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“…Acceptance, positive evaluations, efforts directed at providing rational support appropriate to the parents’ needs [6, 20–24]. …”

Section: ‘Disabled’ Socialization: Experiences Of Socialization Impormentioning

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“…Social attitudes of persons who are important in women’s life (their close ones, e.g. parents) and of the specialists who perform duties related to taking care of the mother and child and then of the family contain a wide spectrum of reactions and behaviors: Devaluation of parenting when parents have a disability, which is visible in: suggesting abortion, or giving the child up for adoption, attempts at depriving parents of child support, looking for pathology and parental incapacity on the basis of how the child functions; patronizing, taking the attitude of disabilism (treating the person with disability as dependent, lacking intellect, and requiring help); discrimination visible in the fact that individuals with disability need to explain the reasons why they want to start a family; Reactions of surprise in situations when one cannot reconcile their convictions about the nature of disability and the observed parenting skills of a person with disability 1 ; Acceptance, positive evaluations, efforts directed at providing rational support appropriate to the parents’ needs [ 6 , 20 – 24 ]. Looking for factors related to the described attitudes (expressed in the negative aspects), one should also refer to the social perception of disability.…”

Section: ‘Disabled’ Socialization: Experiences Of Socialization Impormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It allows the individual to fulfill their needs (among others: love and self-realization) and develop the sense of self-esteem. It plays a vital role in developing a positive identity, a sense of femininity, motivation and the meaning of life [ 7 , 3 20 , 4 27 ]. The decision about becoming a mother is sometimes taken ‘to spite’ negative opinions of the environment, but its source lies not so much in the need to manifest one’s own opinion as in a deep psychological need.…”

Section: Individuals With Disability In Family Roles: Positive and Nementioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Context of Disabled Parenting

Parchomiuk

2014

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The article discusses parenting of individuals with disability. It was based on the perspective of barriers, which (next to the perspective of risk and the functional perspective) marks the nature of discourse this theme takes in the literature on the subject and in practice. The perspective of barriers, related to the social model of disability, emphasizes the social factors important for the quality of parenting of individuals with disability. These factors were analyzed on the basis of available research results with mothers and fathers with disability, and able-bodied individuals who are part of their professional and non-professional environment. The article draws attention to the specificity of socialization of individuals with disability and its significance for preparations for family roles, social attitudes towards disabled individuals’ parenting, and their determinants. It also presents disabled parents’ experiences and the importance of realizing their role of a mother or father.

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“…Acceptance, positive evaluations, efforts directed at providing rational support appropriate to the parents’ needs [6, 20–24]. …”

Section: ‘Disabled’ Socialization: Experiences Of Socialization Impormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: ‘Disabled’ Socialization: Experiences Of Socialization Impormentioning

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Section: Individuals With Disability In Family Roles: Positive and Nementioning

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Social Context of Disabled Parenting

Parchomiuk

2014

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“…Although the model of a breadwinning father has lost a little of its dominance with the expansion of feminism and the socio-demographic situation, research about fathers with disabilities showed that the traditional, breadwinning image of a father often causes role-conflict especially in fathers staying at home with their children. Researchers drew the attention to the specific experiences of fathers with disability and also to the need for further investigation (Kilkey-Clarke 2010).…”

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Parenting in the lives of persons with intellectual disabilities

Katona¹,

Szücs²

2018

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The questions of childbearing and parenting in the life of persons with intellectual disabilities are very marginal both in research and professional practice. Although international guidelines emphasize the total social participation and self-determination of persons with disabilities, protectiveness is more common at a local level in connection with sexuality and childbearing. Parenting capacity involves the complex interplay between children and their parents, home and community environments, and family and community services. Hence, our intention is to concentrate on these relationships and to conduct interactive pair interviews with people with intellectual disabilities and relevant people in their lives. In our research we are curious about the opportunities and obstacles in the lives of persons with intellectual disabilities to becoming parents in a variety of living conditions, as well as the characteristics of the parenting roles of women and men with intellectual disabilities.

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“…Since the figure of the child buttresses normative futures for the state and the human, disabled people are specifically barred from reproductive futurity. To do otherwise, would be to risk exposing the future child and thus all of our futures to disabled parents' pathological nature and nurture (Kilkey & Clarke, 2010).…”

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Reimagining Parenting Possibilities: Towards Intimate Justice

Ignagni

Schormans

2016

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At the heart of this paper is a collaboratively created script representing a line of analysis from the Reimagining Parenting Possibilities Project. The script is performed as a forum theatre scene used to disseminate findings from this ongoing research project. Forum theatre, an exemplar of Augusto Boal's "theatre of the oppressed," invites audience members into a scene, inventing through embodied performance and improvisation analyses and interventions in shared social dilemmas (Boal, 2006). The project rests upon our joint investments in exploring how the denial and containment of parenthood for people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities stems from enduring ableist views as to who is deemed "fit" to raise future citizens, and related efforts to erase disability. We introduce this work with a prologue -offering context for the ableist dynamic and intimate injustices that unfold in the scene. We also provide some background on how we developed the scene, attending to the democratizing and transformative potential of our methodology. Finally, by way of an epilogue, we sketch a number of questions about the scene's potential to promote intimate and disability justice.

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Disabled men and fathering: opportunities and constraints

Cited by 25 publications

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Social Context of Disabled Parenting

Social Context of Disabled Parenting

Parenting in the lives of persons with intellectual disabilities

Reimagining Parenting Possibilities: Towards Intimate Justice

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