RT Journal
A1 Feudtner C
T1 Grief-love: Contradictions in the lives of fathers of children with disabilities
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2002
FD July 1
VO 156
IS 7
SP 643
OP 643
DO 10.1001/archpedi.156.7.643
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.156.7.643
AB 
A CONVOCATION OF FATHERS, united in their calling to parent daughters and sons who live with disabilities, convenes each year as the summer solstice approaches. Under the auspices of the Washington State Fathers Network (a nonprofit organization held together, barely, with bake sale brio) these 80-or-so men care for children of all sorts, from infants to teens to young adults, of diverse colors and creeds, with autism, cerebral palsy, or chromosomal rearrangements, with diseases afflicting the lungs, bowels, heart, or brain. Some of these fathers asked for this job, adopting their child with special needs; most did not. All gathered here, though, strive to meet the challenge.