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• According to Aunos & Feldman (2002)[7] workers, professionals
and parents of persons with intellectual disability are still
strongly against procreation and in favour of sterilisation; these
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• Special education teachers and university students hold more
positive attitudes towards sexuality and sexuality education
programs than parents and service workers (Aunos & Feldman,
2002).
• In one US study, there was substantially less support for a
normalised life experience with respect to sexual behaviour
for individuals with intellectual disabilities than in other areas
(Scotti, Slack, Bowman and Morris, 1996).
• Parenthood by people with moderate intellectual disabilities
was considered less positively than other aspects of sexuality
by parents and staff groups in attitudinal research conducted in
Australia (Cuskelly & Bryde, 2004). [8]
• Members of the general public in research conducted in France
(n=367) considered that adults with intellectual disabilities’
sexual relationships were more acceptable when contraception
was being used. The participants’ main concerns centred on the
consequences of sexual relationships, and not on the sexual
relationships per se; sexual relationships that could lead to
procreation and parenting among people with intellectual
disability were not judged acceptable, even if the child could be
cared for by a person without an intellectual disability; sexual
relationships were judged to be moderately acceptable where
the person with an intellectual disability was autonomous, the
7 Based on a review of literature from many different countries relating to attitudes
towards sexuality, sterilisation, procreation and parenting by people with
intellectual disability.
8 Sample included parents of an adult with intellectual disability (43); support staff
(62) and community sample (63).