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17 - Parenting Children with Disabilities

from Part IV - Child Factors that Impact Parenting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2022

By
Keith Crnic  and
Laura Winstone
Edited by
Amanda Sheffield Morris  and
Julia Mendez Smith
Amanda Sheffield Morris
Affiliation:
Oklahoma State University
Julia Mendez Smith
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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Summary

Even under the best of circumstances, parenting can be a challenging proposition. Caregiving presents a myriad of demands requiring sets of skills with which few of us come fully equipped but must nonetheless deliver from birth, or even prenatally. These demands are neither uniform, nor static. They vary as a function of a seemingly endless array of issues that families face, and they change as families develop and progress through the developmental periods that their children must negotiate to emerge as competent adults.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Parenting , pp. 377 - 402
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Print publication year: 2022

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