Varför bo tillsammans? Argument från föräldrar som lever med sina vuxna barn med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning
Engelsk titel: Why live together? Arguments from parents who live with their adult children with intellectual disabilities
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Författare:
Engwall, Kristina
Email: kristina.engwall@fou-sodertorn.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 20
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 18030350
Sammanfattning
Despite strong norms in Sweden that adults with intellectual disabilities should live on their own, a minority still live in the parental home. Why? In this study, eight parents are interviewed. The parents’ reasons are related to a sense of duty, the ability to give their children “a good life” and a social con-text. Their solution of the housing situation means that they challenge norms on how disability support should be given, how families should look and how family relations should be. There is risk that the co-living of parents and adult children will entrench an age structure in which parents are ascribed “eternal” adulthood, never transitioning into old age, while the child remains in “eternal” adolescence.