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Family Trouble - Middle-Class Parents, Children's Problems, and The Disruption of Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Family Trouble - Middle-Class Parents, Children's Problems, and The Disruption of Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Our children mean the world to us. They are so central to our hopes
and dreams that we will do almost anything to keep them healthy,
happy, and safe. What happens, then, when a child has serious
problems? In Family Trouble, a compelling portrait of upheaval in
family life, sociologist Ara Francis tells the stories of
middle-class men and women whose children face significant medical,
psychological, and social challenges. Francis interviewed the
mothers and fathers of children with such problems as depression,
bi-polar disorder, autism, learning disabilities, drug addiction,
alcoholism, fetal alcohol syndrome, and cerebral palsy. Children's
problems, she finds, profoundly upset the foundations of parents'
everyday lives, overturning taken-for-granted expectations, daily
routines, and personal relationships. Indeed, these problems
initiated a chain of disruption that moved through parents' lives
in domino-like fashion, culminating in a crisis characterized by
uncertainty, loneliness, guilt, grief, and anxiety. Francis looks
at how mothers and fathers often differ in their interpretation of
a child's condition, discusses the gendered nature of child
rearing, and describes how parents struggle to find effective
treatments and to successfully navigate medical and educational
bureaucracies. But above all, Family Trouble examines how
children's problems disrupt middle-class dreams of the ""normal""
family. It captures how children's problems ""radiate"" and spill
over into other areas of parents' lives, wreaking havoc even on
their identities, leading them to reevaluate deeply held
assumptions about their own sense of self and what it means to
achieve the good life. Engagingly written, Family Trouble offers
insight to professionals and solace to parents. The book offers a
clear message to anyone in the throes of family trouble: you are in
good company, and you are not as different as you might feel.
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