Thank you for responding! Will look more into what you are saying and evaluate more of my opinions on the matter.
Also to just mention the studies, I added a lot of studies that didn’t support my argument that is why I said:
As, I don’t want people to just listen to me but to make up their own decisions.
With the disabled parents argument I could not find a single study as there wasn’t any on online safety. There are more studies for kids who are disabled than for studies of parents who are disabled (but even some of those are lacking). So, I think that is an oversight in the society as a whole.
This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first study with the aim of describing how children and adolescents experience their everyday family life when having a parent with deafblindness.
Different everyday life
Although the children stated that they lived a life like anyone else, they also said that they were experiencing a different everyday life. This included Acknowledging differences, that they were Adjusting to the parent’s needs, and that the parent’s deafblindness led to a Financial strain.
Adjusting to the parent’s needs
Some of the children said that they needed to adjust themselves to their parent’s needs, as stated by one child “I have always adapted myself to my parents’ needs” (Interview no 7). Adjusting to the parent’s needs included the need for adapting the communication method.
Financial strain
Having a parent with deafblindness might lead to financial strain for the children. One child said that one of the parents had to work a lot of overtime to survive financially since the other parent was unemployed due to deafblindness, and one child said that there were a “lot of expenses involved when being deafblind”
Being there for the parent
Being the child in a family where at least one of the parents had deafblindness meant being there for the parent by Helping the parent and Protecting the parent from harm.
Being emotionally affected
Feelings of frustration, Feelings of compassion and Need for support were the subcategories interpreted as describing how the children were emotionally affected by living with a parent who had deafblindness…
Other situations when feelings of frustration occurred were when the children had to repeat themselves several times since their parent did not hear what was being said,
Need for support
Some of the children stated that they had not been offered any special support in school or from a counsellor due to their parent having deafblindness. Since some of the children stated that they believed that they had difficulties managing school due to the lack of help from their parent with their homework they believed that they would have benefitted from some special help in school. Despite this, some stated that they did not need any special support and some children expressed a need for emotional support; not only for themselves but also for other children experiencing the same situation as themselves. The present emotional support was mostly given by family and friends, “I get the support I need from my friends” (Interview no 5), and in some cases from the school, “I´ve talked a little with the school nurse regarding how it is to have a parent with deafblindness.” (Interview no 9).
But all in all I thank you for responding and I will respond to the post more publicly once I can get a chance to read everything and digest it fully.
Edit: Had to fix the link. For some reason after replying the link added a / at the beginning and end of the URL. Which made the link unusable.