"Family Planning?" Exploring imaginaries of parenthood in young people with learning disabilities

为人父母可以被理解为普通成年人的选择和结果，它确认了成年人的地位，塑造了自我形象和身份。然而，尽管越来越多的人承认，有学习障碍的年轻人应该被认为是无性行为者，但关于父母身份的选择和愿望的问题，在学术文献中仍然没有得到充分的探讨。残疾的医学和社会远见者认为“正常性”是一种珍贵的文化地位，似乎否认有学习障碍的年轻人可以或确实应该成为父母。那些成为父母的人被先验地认为是不称职的，而对于许多有学习障碍的年轻人来说，父母身份仍然没有实现，这只不过是一种“隐喻”的可能性。它试图探索他们如何看待为人父母的可能性，并进一步了解他们的家庭和更广泛的社会世界如何影响他们的想象。通过结合不同的定性方法，它旨在使用一个马赛克的帐户，为有学习障碍的年轻人创造一个空间，表达他们的观点。所提出的技术将综合一系列的方法，借鉴面对面半结构化的采访和视频日记。

Parenthood can be understood as a choice and consequence of ordinary adulthood; itconfirms adult status and shapes self-image and identity. However whilst there is growingacknowledgement that young people with learning disabilities should be recognised assexual actors, questions regarding choices and desires for parenthood, remain underexploredwithin the academic literature.Medical and social visionaries of disability have deemed 'normativity' as a prized culturalstatus which appear to deny that young people with learning disabilities could or indeedshould be parents. Those that do become parents are a priori assumed to be incompetent,while for many young people with learning disabilities, parenthood remains unrealised,suggesting little more than a 'metaphorical' possibility.The aim of this research is to examine parenthood imaginaries in young people withlearning disabilities. It seeks to explore how they think about the possibilities ofparenthood, and to further understand how their familial and broader social worlds mayinfluence what they imagine. By combining different qualitative methodologicalapproaches, it aims to use a mosaic of accounts that create a space for young people withlearning disabilities to express their perspectives. The proposed techniques willsynthesise a range of approaches that draw on face-face semi-structured interviews andvideo diaries.