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Women as carers of alcoholic and drug addicted men

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posted on 1998-01-01, 00:00 authored by Grazyna ZajdowGrazyna Zajdow
This article looks at some of the experiences of women who care for alcoholic and drug addicted men. Through biographical interviews it describes how this group of women has dealt with the problems which women have to confront in the face of difficulties with the health and welfare systems, as well as their own expectations of what it means to be good wives and partners in very stressful situations. The article argues that the normative expectations of women as wives and mothers is to care for families, and while there is now an extensive literature on women's caring, the group of women described in these pages is generally ignored by this same literature.

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Journal

Australian journal of primary health - interchange

Volume

4

Issue

3

Pagination

214 - 221

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

Location

Melbourne, Vic.

ISSN

1448-7527

eISSN

1836-7399

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

1998, CSIRO Publishing

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