Care of Black Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Fathers, Maternal Support, and Esteem.

Slaughter, Diana T.; Dilworth-Anderson, Peggye

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Publication Date: 1988

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Care of Black Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Fathers, Maternal Support, and Esteem.

Slaughter, Diana T.; Dilworth-Anderson, Peggye

Family Relations, v37 n3 p281-87 Jul 1988

Compared primary caregivers' perceptions of social support received in father-present (N=15) and father-absent (N=19) Black families caring for a child with sickle cell anemia. Found most support to caregivers came from extended kin network, despite father presence or absence. Caregivers reported decrease in network support between diagnosis in early childhood and middle childhood. (Author/NB)

Descriptors: Black Family, Children, Chronic Illness, Extended Family, Fatherless Family, Fathers, Kinship, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Self Esteem, Sickle Cell Anemia, Social Support Groups

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Language: English

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