Parents are not homogeneous

doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7397.1039/b

BMJ 2003;326:1039 ( 10 May )

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Parents are not homogeneous

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EDITOR $---$ Young et al offer an important insight into the rub between parental desires to protect their offspring from unpleasantnews while at the same time recognising their child's autonomy.¹However, the paper falls short in tworespects.

Firstly, although Young et al say that they did not address the influence of sex, this factor cannot be simply discountedwithout explanation. Upholding the argument that qualitative dataneed analysis by sex is the recognition of the existence of women'shealth movements and policies and of literature pertaining tomen's health on the basis of salient social theories. Young etal needed to recognise that the discourse of male children andyoung adults did not or did, in some way, differ from those oftheir femalecounterparts.

Secondly, the voices of the mothers and fathers were aggregated into a single factor, that of "the parent." Although not uncommonin family . . . [Full text of this article]

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