| Summary: | 碩士 === 元智大學 === 社會暨政策科學學系 === 99 === ABSTRACT
This study show the lives, experiences and needs of children who care - those children under the age of 18 who provide primary care for a sick, disabled or elderly adult in the home. It presents the lives of these children, their responsibilities, their commitments, their pain and their fears. It paints a picture of neglect both by professionals paid to care as well as by other family members.
Rather than defining young carers by the level of their caring responsibilities and the absence of formal welfare system support, we defined, and identified, young carers by the impact on their lifestyles, experiences and childhood. The hypothesis was that a child in a lone parent family or two parent family, who looked after a parent or sibling, could experience many of the impact, or restriction on their childhood, we believed, would depend on a number of complex and inter-related familial, social and policy-related factors, including the time spent caring, the level of responsibility, the intimacy or intensity of the tasks performed, the things ‘lost’ to the child, who shares the care or assists the child, the timing of care (when care is provided and how long it takes). We believed the provision of welfare and policy can help .
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