• Soc Work Health Care · Jan 1996

    Gender differences in parenting a child with cancer.

    • K A Brown and O A Barbarin.
    • University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Policy and Social Research, Department of Social Welfare 90095-1656, USA.
    • Soc Work Health Care. 1996 Jan 1;22(4):53-71.

    AbstractThis study of 124 parents of children diagnosed with cancer investigates parents' perceptions of their role in the illness situation. The study found that mothers and fathers differ in their experience of and response to parenting a child with cancer. These differences appear to reflect traditional parenting roles characterized by a gender-based division of labor. Sex-role socialization theory is discussed as an explanatory model of the parenting experience. Practice recommendations are offered to medical social workers and other health care professionals concerned about the long term psychosocial adjustment of parents with chronically ill children.

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