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Challenging Childhoods

Young people's accounts of `getting by' in families with substance use problems

Kathryn Backett-Milburn

Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) and Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh, k.milburn{at}ed.ac.uk

Sarah Wilson

CRFR and Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Angus Bancroft

Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Sarah Cunningham-Burley

CRFR and Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Concern is increasing about children growing up in families where there are substance use problems but relatively little is known about the perspectives of the children themselves. This article reports on a qualitative study with young people who grew up in such families, exploring their accounts of their daily lives at home, school and leisure. The study focuses on the everyday interactions, practices and processes the young people felt helped them to `get by' in their challenging childhoods, showing how the protective factors thought to promote `resilience' were seldom in place for them unconditionally and without associated costs.

Key Words: challenging childhoods • families • qualitative study • resilience • substance misuse

Childhood, Vol. 15, No. 4, 461-479 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0907568208097202
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