Parents in trouble -- Constructing trouble, losing certainty -- Elusive remedies and disrupted routines -- Stigma and disrupted relationships -- Unmet expectations and emotional turmoil -- Disrupted selves, making sense and making do -- Family trouble
Summary
In Family Trouble, a compelling portrait of upheaval in family life, sociologist Ara Francis tells the stories of middle-class men and women whose children face significant medical, psychological, or social challenges. Children's problems, she finds, begin a chain of disruption that touches virtually every aspect of the parents' lives, leading them to reevaluate deeply held assumptions about their own sense of self and what it means to achieve the good life
