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Parents with disabilities

Associated WikiProject:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology

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This is my proposal for the article following WP:N, WP:V, ect.

Explanation of the requirements:

Notability

My page meets the requirements of notability because the topic has gained enough attention and there are numbers of reliable sources published. The sources I use include published physical books, articles from magazines and reports published by professional agencies, which are suitable and reliable. And the main contents of the sources is about the topic 'parents with disabilities' or closely relevant aspects of this topic. Also the article is required on the ‘WikiPedia:Requested Article’ page, which means a separate page of this topic is needed. The topic 'parents with disabilities' is about a phenomenon which has always been existing, so it's not temporally notable. Besides, there is no related pages or any other pages including context about the topic existing.

Neutrality

My page meets the requirements of neutrality because the article list and explain the sides instead of taking them. The article describes different views published in reliable resources, without being biased or using biased tone. Opinions and facts are not mixed or defined as each other. Appropriate weight is given to each view depends on whether it is majority or minority. And the article only represents significant points of view which are published. No opinion which held only by tiny minority is presented in the page. I will fairly illustrate viewpoints published in reliable resources in this page accurately, without bias.

No original research

My page meets the requirement of no original research because only reliable and published resources are used. And the resources are directly relative to the topic. None of new conclusion, analysis, opinion or synthesis is included in the page. The page doesn’t contain any of my own opinion about the topic or my conclusion based on the resources. I will only collect and rewrite the information from resources without changing original points of the publisher or providing new opinions.

Description:

Parents with disabilities are those who are raising children and have disabilities in a certain aspect for example mental, physical and so on. There is more accurate classification of different types of disabilities, basing on disabled parents’ physical and mental condition. Disability brings various problems to parents themselves, their children and the whole family. Researchers has been discussing the effects and issued raised by disabled parents. Relevant sources can be found online and from physical printed publication. Aiming at helping parents with disabilities, organizations and governments have delivered relevant strategies to provide support.

Classification of disabilities and issues

in this section, there will be two subsections.

Types of disabilities of parents

In this subsection, different types of disabilities will be simply described, explained and classified.

Challenge and difficulties

in this subsection, issues that impact disabled parents and come from different aspect like family and society will be illustrated.

Young carer

in this section, the term ‘young carers’ will be explained in detail. Information about what leads to the young carer phenomenon, how the life of young carers is like and relative statistics will be included.

Effects on children

in this section, i will collect the information about the effects of disabled parenting on children from different resources. Both positive and negative aspects will be covered and will be given proper weight.

The needed support

Contents of this section list the support needed by disabled parents in different aspects. More specifically, contents like parents with which certain type of disability needs which certain kind of support will also be included.

Reference list

Annotation: this resource is a physical book. The book discusses about specifically about issues relating to parents with mental illness. There is information about the effects of this kind of disability on parents and children, which provides information needed in the ‘challenge’ and ‘effects on children’ sections. And there are description and analysis about the experience of child carers, which is relevant to the ‘young carers’ section.

Annotation: This resource is from the website of Australian Bureau of Statistics which is Australia’s statistics agency. This source gives definition of the term ‘disability’ and simply illustrates the type of disability, which helps the section about the classification of disabilities. Also, there are detailed analysis about young carers and effects on families and children with specific statistics. And these contents can contribute to the 2^nd and 3^rd sections.

Annotation: this source is a report published on the website The Hub by The Social investment Agency (SIA) in New Zealand. The source has very detailed analysis about the supports needed by disabled parents. It explains how the time, range, frequency and type of required supports vary depending on different conditions of disabled parents. These contents will contribute a lot to the 4^th section of the article. There are also contents about issues facing parents of different types of disabilities in society and family, which helps the 1^st section. Brief illustration relating young carers is also mentioned in the source, which is helpful to the ‘Young Carers’ section.

Annotation: this is an article published online in the website of Greater Good Magazine. It mainly reports that there are positive effects of disabled parents on children, according to a recent study delivered by researchers from Israel’s Bar Ilan University and several past research. Negative effects pointed out by others are also briefly mentioned in the article. I will use the information from this article to contribute to the ‘effects on children’ section.

Annotation: this source is a physical book. There is information about identification of ‘young carers’ and how they are involved in caring and domestic activities. Also the connection between the young carer phenomenon and variables like gender, sex, family shape and impairment group is discussed, based on quantitative data. All these contents provide information for the ‘young carers’ section.

Annotation: the source is a report published by the National Council on Disability which is an independent federal agency consisting of a team of professional staff. The report discusses whether disability negatively affect parenting, according to numbers of researches. The report classifies different types of disability and analyse each type respectively, including issues like discrimination and studies carried out by different professional researchers. So this source provide information for the ‘challenge’ section and ‘effects on children’ section.