Keeping a Sound Marriage : How Couples with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Maintain Their Marriages.
Marriage is the mutual consent of two individuals to commit and to devote each other 's unconditional love, understanding, and respect regardless their customs, beliefs and/or religion.
The following research outlines the important factors that are essential to keep a solid marriage, while having children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). During the investigation, numerous couples with children with ASD and without the Spectrum were interviewed as to find out the methods associated with maintaining a successful marriage.
In addition, while conducting the analysis with both groups of husbands and wives with children with Autism …show more content…
The negative factors were not having the correct diagnosis, social exclusion, the severeness of the children 's behavior, parents with a higher level of emotional and physical stress, in addition to all the others problems in a common marriage. In brief, in the systematic analysis conducted the methods of dealing with stressors in a marriage with children with ASD in part depended on how strong the marriage was (Ramish, Onaga, Oh, 2014).
For the most part, couples with children with ASD were not completely happy as well as those marriages with typically developing children because of the stress level experienced in their daily lives. In the other hand, they learned to understand each other better, to cope and unanimously decided to stay together as a couple to commit to one another and to their child 's condition.
These couples with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, did not necessarily focused on their fate, or disadvantages rather than positively turning their distress into eustress and adapting to new changes in order to mature together while going through the …show more content…
For this reason, when marriage is based on communication and trust it becomes indestructible (Singer, 2011, p8).
In conclusion, marriage is a commitment made to one another to love, care and respect in good times and bad times even before a nuclear family is formed. A nuclear family consists of a small structure of four members which are the father, the mother and their two children (Kornblum, 1997, p475). Therefore, since it is a voluntary decision of two individuals, it should not change through time or when having children, not even if these children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
On the contrary, that is when the husband and wife should strengthen their relationship by supporting, understanding and by germinating their unconditional love every day as their children
Marriage is the mutual consent of two individuals to commit and to devote each other 's unconditional love, understanding, and respect regardless their customs, beliefs and/or religion.
The following research outlines the important factors that are essential to keep a solid marriage, while having children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). During the investigation, numerous couples with children with ASD and without the Spectrum were interviewed as to find out the methods associated with maintaining a successful marriage.
In addition, while conducting the analysis with both groups of husbands and wives with children with Autism …show more content…
The negative factors were not having the correct diagnosis, social exclusion, the severeness of the children 's behavior, parents with a higher level of emotional and physical stress, in addition to all the others problems in a common marriage. In brief, in the systematic analysis conducted the methods of dealing with stressors in a marriage with children with ASD in part depended on how strong the marriage was (Ramish, Onaga, Oh, 2014).
For the most part, couples with children with ASD were not completely happy as well as those marriages with typically developing children because of the stress level experienced in their daily lives. In the other hand, they learned to understand each other better, to cope and unanimously decided to stay together as a couple to commit to one another and to their child 's condition.
These couples with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, did not necessarily focused on their fate, or disadvantages rather than positively turning their distress into eustress and adapting to new changes in order to mature together while going through the …show more content…
For this reason, when marriage is based on communication and trust it becomes indestructible (Singer, 2011, p8).
In conclusion, marriage is a commitment made to one another to love, care and respect in good times and bad times even before a nuclear family is formed. A nuclear family consists of a small structure of four members which are the father, the mother and their two children (Kornblum, 1997, p475). Therefore, since it is a voluntary decision of two individuals, it should not change through time or when having children, not even if these children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
On the contrary, that is when the husband and wife should strengthen their relationship by supporting, understanding and by germinating their unconditional love every day as their children