Intellectual disabilities and sexuality: People with intellectual disabilities and the parenting role. A literature study.

This literature study deals with references in the book "Parents with Intellectual Disabilities. Past, Present and Futures ", published in 2010. The book was written after a conference in 2006, where IASSID (International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities) established a group of professionals called SIRG (Special Interest Research Group) on the subject of people with intellectual disabilities as parents. 

SIRG uses references to the UN Standard Rules (UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), which highlights the right to marry and have children. The individual countries have to "eliminate the discrimination of people with disabilities in all areas related to marriage, family, parenthood and relationships with other people" (Article 23) "... and shall provide assistance to persons with disabilities who have children." The literature study shows that it involves major challenges in meeting this requirement as it may be a contradiction between being a person with intellectual disability and being able to cope as a parent.

Recorded June 12 – 16, 2011 at the 20th WAS World Congress for Sexual Health
'Forging the Future: Sexual Health for the 21th Century', Glasgow, United Kingdom
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