It takes a village to raise a child: an exploration of the experience of parenting in the Fairhill community
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2022-04-20
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O'Leary, Kasia
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Community-Academic Research Links, University College Cork
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Abstract
This Community Academic Research Links Project (CARL) was undertaken to understand the
parenting experience in the Fairhill community, a community termed as disadvantaged
located on the North side of Cork city. The Fairhill Community Association asked the
researcher to map the voices of the cohort parents in the Fairhill Community and what would
support them in their parental role with community participation being a key underpinning in
this research. Seven participants (parents and grandparents) took part in semi‐structured
telephone interviews with the researcher, which were then transcribed and thematically
analysed. A place for parents to meet and form parental support groups as well a safe place
for their children to congregate emerged from the research findings. The importance of
acknowledging parental stress and supporting this in the community is another major theme
of this research. A community and youth centre would support in these emerging themes.
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North side of Cork city , Disadvantaged community , Fairhill , Parental role
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O'Leary, K. (2022) It takes a village to raise a child: an exploration of the experience of parenting in the Fairhill community. Cork: Community-Academic Research Links, University College Cork.
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©2022, Kasia O'Leary.