Parents of Children with Long-term Illness or Disability, Essay

Parents of Children with Long-term Illness or Disability, Essay

Question descriptionThis week, analyze problems experienced by parents with children who have long-term illnesses or disabilities. Consider the following situations and the impact of each on parent-child socio-emotional relationships and parenting:

  1. The hospital is a far distance from where the family lives, and the parent/parents is/are unable to stay nearby to visit the child daily/weekly.
  2. Finances (and familial relations such as marriage or co-custody) are strained by the cost of treatment and/or there are other children in the home needing care.
  3. Ill children often feel abandoned and act-out, often rejecting the parent(s), who, in turn, may feel guilty and fail to discipline the children properly.

Paper Instructions:

  • Write a two- to three-page paper, not including the required title and reference pages.
  • Support your analysis using (and properly citing) material from the required readings for Week 5.
  • Format your paper according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA.