Out of
mothers with autistic children, 32.3 % had depression and 41.5 % had dysphoria while, 10 % of control mothers had depression and 16 % had dysphoria, x2 = 6.3 (p < 0.001).
Not exact matches
Though wholly discredited today, the «refrigerator
mother» diagnosis condemned thousands of
autistic children to questionable therapies, and their
mothers to a long nightmare of self - doubt and guilt») Could it be that more parents are providing more support because more
children are struggling
with mental health issues that are completely unrelated to how they were parented?
The team found that
mothers passed only half of their structural variants on to their
autistic children — a frequency that would be expected by chance alone — suggesting that variants inherited from
mothers were not associated
with autism.
As James notes, one
mother killed herself after seeking every possible treatment for her
autistic daughter to no avail, causing a furor among parents
with autistic children.
She also has had the opportunity to work
with mothers of
autistic children guiding the
mothers toward a healing protocol for common gut conditions associated
with autism.
Researchers have found that some
mothers of
autistic children create antibodies to the brain tissue of their fetus, meaning the
child is a born
with a brain already developmentally imbalanced by immune destruction.
I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to school
with hardly any sleep after witnessing his
mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the
autistic child whose parents opted him out of the test but the school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public - school TEACHER to serve on the Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»
«As a naval spouse and the
mother of an
autistic child, J. Heather Fitzpatrick, LCSW knows how difficult it can be to cope
with adversity.
The study confirmed that
mothers of
children with autistic disorder experience higher levels of depression and reported less than quality of life compared
with mothers of
children with intellectual disability.
In addition, the results indicated that single
mothers of
children with autistic disorder were found to be more vulnerable to higher level of depression than
mothers living
with a partner.
In the study, interviews were conducted
with 50
mothers of
children who were diagnosed
with autistic disorder,
with a mean age of 5.98 years old.
In their study, 103 parents (58
mothers and 45 fathers) who had a
child with autistic disorder completed the Short Form of the Parenting Stress Index.
All studies agreed that
mother younger than 30 years old,
child younger than 6 years old, recently time diagnosed, low educational level, low monthly income and single parent were related to high level of parenting stress of
children with autistic disorder.