碩士 / 國立臺北大學 / 社會工作學系 / 105 / The aim of this study is to focus on the experiences of parents with intellectual disabilities (ID) of raising their children, the relationship between family members, and what support they do and do not have. This study is underpinned by functionalism and family system theory. Nine in-depth interviews were conducted with nine participants (four groups) from northern and Central Taiwan. Each group has one parent with mild or moderate ID and one over 12 year-old, healthy child. One spouse of the father with ID also accepted the interview. According to the findings, suggestions are given for everyone who is concerned about this issue in the end. The findings are as follows,
(1) Although parents with ID have the ability to learn how to do housework and basic care, neglect still happens due to lack of knowledge and ability to cope with problems. Additionally, if the spouse of the mother with ID has committed domestic violence, the mother is not only unable to protect her children from violence, but also herself is likely to become a victim.
(2) Parents with ID are probably unable to discipline their children, and they are less authoritative. Once parents with ID cannot be recognized or respected by their family, it may lead to family conflicts, triangulations and coalition.
(3) The social and economic status of parents with ID is normally low, and they are socially isolated. It’s hard for them to provide their children a life of quality or help their children to get more resources with their limited social capital. Because of parents’ insufficient ability, their children may instead have to sacrifice themselves to support the family. Moreover, other family members have to take over the responsibilities that parents with ID cannot assume, which results role reversal and low self-differentiation among the family members and blurred sub-system boundaries. When suffering from excessive stress, the family members may have emotional problems or emotional cut-off.
(4) All of the family leaders are not parents with ID but grandparents or the one who is in charge with the household finance, and family leaders’ values and behavior have great influence on other family members.
(5) The supports for parents with ID may be mainly from their family. Most domestic affairs are dominated by other family members, and therefore parents with ID are passive toward external supports.
Suggestions,
Government should provide parents with ID parenting education service, family counseling service, and housework training service. For those people with ID who cannot take mass transportation or who are reluctant to leave their home and passive toward external services, all of these services should be designed as “offer at-home service”. Also, every staff has to be trained by the government in order to be adequate to the tasks.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/105NTPU0201008 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | LEE, HO-LING, 李賀齡 |
| Contributors | CHEN, FEN-LING, 陳芬苓 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 121 |
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