دانلود مقاله : Doing adulthood through parenthood: Notions of parenthood among people with cogniti

چکیده : 

Perspectives on reproduction and developmental disabilities are

gradually changing in Sweden. Through this change parents with

developmental disabilities are gradually being included within an

emergent discourse of “good enough parenting” on certain conditions.

The present article explores discourses of reproduction and

parenting among adults with developmental disabilities in two

Swedish contexts: in a Swedish magazine, “Empowerment”, produced

by and aimed at adults with autism, and interviews with

people with intellectual disabilities in Sweden. Common to the

materials from both studies are a normative reprosexual discourse

of parenting and an underlying assumption that parenthood relates

to adulthood in the sense that it requires maturity. The stories in the

magazine “Empowerment” can be seen as expressing an emergent

counter-hegemonic conditional discourse of “good enough parenting”

which regards some people with autism as “good enough”

parents. In general terms, the stories about parenting in the interview

study depict parenting as related to age awareness and, unlike

what is found in the material from “Empowerment”, there is no discussion

of or reflection on whether or how impairment affects one’s

opportunity/ability to become a parent