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Title:

Child in a parental role – confused family roles. World and Polish reports on parentification

Creator:

Żarczyńska-Hyla, Jolanta ; Piechnik-Borusowska, Jolanta

ORCID:

0000-0001-9264-8223 ; 0000-0002-9227-3553

Subject and Keywords:

parentification ; role confusion ; inversed parenting role ; role inversion

Abstract:

This review paper aims to present the phenomenon of parentification, its determinants and outcomes. Parentification is usually defined as a reversal of family roles, when a child assumes the role of a parent and the parent takes on the role of a child. Parentification occurs when a parent partially, or entirely abdicates his, or her parental tasks and duties. The parent’s abdication sets in motion the process of parentification, in which a child, usually the eldest in the family, feels obliged to take on the role of a parent in various spheres of family life. The care and duties rendered by the child can be instrumental, or emotional in character. The parentified child may suffer various costs and his, or her correct development may be endangered. Although the results of many international and the few Polish studies indicate that parentification is a very complex and multi-faceted phenomenon, they often point out both the immediate and long term consequences of the reversal of roles in the family.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Zakład Historii Edukacji Instytutu Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2018

Resource Type:

journal

Identifier:

ISSN 2082-9019 ; e-ISSN 2300-5866 ; doi:10.23734/wwr20181.289.303

Source:

Pdg P 343

Language:

pol

Relation:

Wychowanie w Rodzinie, T. 17 (1/2018)

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Rules of usage of Digital Library of Wroclaw University

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Rights holder:

© Copyright by Jolanta Żarczyńska-Hyla ; © Copyright by Jolanta Piechnik-Borusowska

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Instytutu Pedagogiki UWr

Autor opisu:

h.w.