"Someone will come in and say I'm doing it wrong." The perspectives of fathers with learning disabilities in England.

Accessible summary: When people with learning disabilities have children and become parents, they sometimes need good support to help them.Research about parents with learning disabilities and the support they get is usually about mothers and not fathers. There is not very much written about dads wi...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 23 - 34
Autores principales: Symonds, Jon, Abbott, David, Dugdale, Daryl
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2021
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          Symonds, Jon
          Abbott, David
          Dugdale, Daryl
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          Paternal Attitudes England
          Intellectual Disability
          Fatherhood
          Support, Psychosocial
          Human
          Qualitative Studies
          Semi-Structured Interview
          England
          Fathers
          Male
          Thematic Analysis
          Attitude to Disability
          Parents with Disabilities
          Male
      ab: Accessible summary: When people with learning disabilities have children and become parents, they sometimes need good support to help them.Research about parents with learning disabilities and the support they get is usually about mothers and not fathers. There is not very much written about dads with learning disabilities.This paper is about interviews with eight dads with learning disabilities who told us about what it was like to be a dad and about the kind of support they had got.We think more support needs to be given to parents with learning disabilities and that dads should be included in this. Background: This article reports on the perspectives of fathers with a learning disability in England about being fathers and the support they have received. Although there is an established literature that considers parenting with a learning disability, few studies have focused on the perspectives of fathers. Method: We adopted a qualitative approach for this study, using semi‐structured interviews with eight fathers with learning disabilities, recruited through learning disability organisations and social media. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Being a father was important to participants and the findings are presented in three themes: descriptions of fatherhood; challenges of fatherhood; and support with fatherhood. Conclusion: We discuss how fathers' perspectives on fatherhood relate to wider transformations of fatherhood in society, the impact of these on fathering with a learning disability and the implications for services.
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