Taboo, Hijack or Fatalism as Culturally Learned Qualities of Bonds by Families caring for Males and Females with Intellectual Disabilities at Homes: Secondary Data Analysis

Abstract

The article is a secondary qualitative data analysis report from cultural perspective on 3 generated in emic perspective categories called: qualities of bonds learned, supported and transmitted by Polish families having adults with intellectual disabilities and conditions that need home-based care for their entire lives. Performed secondary data analysis is grounded in the content of existing 3 Polish qualitative datasets from primary research undertaken in years 2005 to 2014. Preliminary results of secondary analysis have indicated the existence of various culturally learned qualities of bonds in Polish families caring for adults (males and females) with intellectual disabilities as well as with multiple developmental disabilities. I have analyzed 3 main patterns of culturally learned qualities of family bonds as: taboo, hijack and fatalism.