Becoming a Mother - Becoming a Father

Parents with Intellectual Disabilities: Past, Present and Futures

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-31

  Mayes, Rachel ^a   Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, Hanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Becoming a mother becoming a father; Expectant mothers, becoming a mother centering on their pregnant bodies; Experiences of becoming a parent for people with intellectual disabilities; Family and community life; Gender important unacknowledged dimension influencing disabled people; Mothers with intellectual disabilities and fathers with intellectual disabilities; Planned or unplanned discovering a pregnancy and intense emotional reactions; Planning the pregnancy; Practice of involuntary sterilization focusing on women with intellectual disabilities; Social policies regarding child bearing and parenting between Iceland and Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886202219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660393.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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