Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA 01610, United States.
Sociol Health Illn. 2012 Jul;34(6):927-42. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01445.x. Epub 2012 Jan 26.
This study examines the stigma experiences of middle-class parents whose children have physical, psychological and behavioural problems. Qualitative interviews with 34 mothers and 21 fathers demonstrate that parents experience two types of stigma: courtesy stigma and the stigma of being a bad parent. While the former stems from close social proximity to stigmatised children, the latter stems from ostensible culpability for children's problems. Both characteristics are social constructs embedded in the larger contexts of an anxious, intensive parenting culture and the problematisation and medicalisation of childhood. As a consequence, mothers, parents whose children have invisible disabilities, and the parents of young children are particularly susceptible to negative labelling. These findings highlight the constructed and political nature of parents' stigmatisation.
本研究考察了有身体、心理和行为问题的孩子的中产阶级父母所经历的污名化问题。对 34 位母亲和 21 位父亲的定性访谈表明，父母经历了两种类型的污名化：礼貌污名化和不良父母污名化。前者源于与受污名化儿童的密切社会接近，后者源于对儿童问题的明显罪责。这两个特征都是社会建构，嵌入在焦虑、密集型育儿文化以及儿童问题的病态化和医学化的更大背景中。因此，母亲、有隐形残疾孩子的父母和幼儿的父母特别容易受到负面标签的影响。这些发现强调了父母污名化的建构性和政治性。
