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Parental Entrepreneurship: A Consumerist Response to Professional Dominance.

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Darling, Rosalyn Benjamin – Journal of Social Issues, 1988

Interviews, from a symbolic interactionist perspective, reveal that parental activism, which involves seeking information and control and challenging authority, is viewed as a response to the failure of society to meet the needs of disabled children and their families. Parental activism may result in a careerlike pattern. (Author/BJV)

Descriptors: Disabilities, Emotional Experience, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship