Disability and the Family

Patricia Neff Claster is Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania Western University, USA, where she focuses her research on sociological studies of children and youths, family and ethnic, racial and gender differences of youths.Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. His research interests include parent-child relationships, mate selection, marriage, and fertility.

• Chapter 1. Coparenting a Child with Disabilities: Selected Determinants; Monika ParchomiukChapter 2. Childhood Disabilities and Differential Parental Time Investments in Siblings; Jocelyn S. Wikle, Ashley Forbush, and Alexander C. JensenChapter 3. A Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Parentification; Barbara ChojnackaChapter 4. What "Normal" Means to My Family and I: Life as a Young, Chronically Ill Person; Allison Jendry JamesChapter 5. Navigating Stigma and Discrimination at Work While Parenting a Child with a Mental Health Disability; Lisa M. Stewart, Claudia Sellmaier, Marin Henderson-Posther, Jessica Lukefahr, and Eileen M. BrennanChapter 6. The Dynamic Association between Disability and Parenthood in Sweden; Fredinah Namatovu, Erling Häggström Gunfridsson, Johan Junkka, and Lotta VikströmChapter 7. Latinx Families of Children with Disabilities: Challenges, Supports, and Empowerment Interventions; Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Isabella Rosas, Mariela Saenz, Janelly Macias-Martinez, and Sandy MagañaChapter 8. Caring Through It: Mothers’ and Daughters’ Perspectives on Disability and Interdependence in Financially Struggling White Families; Annaliese Grant and Rachel LitchmanChapter 9. The Well-Being of Croatian Parent Caregivers: Testing the Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Social Support; Jelena Ombla, Marina Vidaković, and Ana SliškovićChapter 10. Improving Family Resilience through Parent to Parent Support: A Pilot Study on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families of Children with Disabilities; Yali Pang and Dana YarbroughChapter 11. Disability is a Family Affair; Rhoda Olkin