Realizowanie ról rodzicielskich i konstruowanie tożsamości rodziców dziecka z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną

There is a sizable share of persons with disability who fail to reach the stage of full autonomy, and instead they remain dependent on others for the rest of their lives. Remaining under the care of their parents is often encountered in the case persons characterized with mental dysfunctions. Therefore, as a part of the research, the author attempted to take a closer look at the situation of parents of children with intellectual disability. The research material was the personal experiences of those parents, compiled through unstructured free interviews. The data was analyzed according to the grounded methodology principles. The performed research allowed to present and reconstruct the course of two subprocesses: defining of the parental roles and construing of the identity of the parent of a child with intellectual disability, specifying their most significant components, dimensions and strategies undertaken within that scope.