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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

single parents, children with disabilities, stressors

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Nursing

Abstract

Parents raising a child with disabilities (CWD) are subject to a unique experience that is often accompanied by many challenges not experienced by a parent raising normally developing children. The experience requires extensive time and money, and the parents endure many stressors resulting in exhaustion (Green, 2007). In addition, Kelso, French, and Fernandez (2005) found stressors for two-parent families of a CWD include the process of diagnosis, treatment decisions, the ability to function spontaneously as a family, schooling for their child, and lack of professional attention to their CWD. If two-parent families experience these difficulties, single-parent families will likely have increased stressors related to being solely responsible for the child. These unique challenges/stressors should be studied, since there is minimal literature exploring the topic.

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