Kathleen Burge, GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
While medications or other issues sometimes makes it more challenging for prospective parents with disabilities to conceive, it’s not only those with disabilities who deal with infertility issues. Indeed, recent studies show that one in six couples worldwide struggle with infertility, regardless of t...
I think the reason why I have to buy in help is that I do not want to take advantage of people’s generosity and help. When it comes to my parents, they are great but also nearly 30 years older than me and I am conscious of that. Now that the boys are older, it is easier, a...
Since "Atai" is actually semi-archaic slang with a rough and aggressive color, her usage of this word can be interpreted both as an indication of her desire to be loved by her parents and as her later challenge to societal normality. When Kumiko reaches adolescence, she starts to have her...
Impression Management by Parents with Disabled Children Margaret Voysey Mar 1972 Rotter, J. 1966 Generalized expectancies for internal vs. external control of reinforcement. Psychological Monographs 80 (whole No. 609). Seeman, M. 1959 On the meaning of alienation. American Sociological Review 24 (Dec...
Consequently, medicine's increased ability to forestall death in seriously ill-newborns and this has magnified the already difficult task of physicians and parents who must attempt to assess which infants may or may not benefit from various medical interventions. This paper will examine the legal ...
All parents look forward to having a normal and healthy baby. The confirmation of disability in their child shakes the family and serves as a source severe psychological disruption to family adjustment. Accepting a child with disability becomes difficult for parents and the family, when competence ...
herself. Her parents loved her, but they treated her like a baby. Mrs. Williams has a daughter and a son. They are both (2) . They lived far from their mother. Mrs. Williams felt (3) . She decided to do something about it. She decided to become a grandmother to a disabled child...
The hospital has encouraged her to apply for an additional benefit available to parents of children with disabilities. But the application process is cumbersome, and she must first correct an error on one of the boys’ birth certificates.
baby with shining blue eyes and curly hair was born disabled (残疾的). But soon the young couple accepted this fact: Jason's arms are just half without hands and his legs aren't fully grown either. They even forgot to think of him as disabled.At the age of six, he told his mother...