‘A woman’s heaven is at her husband’s feet’1? The dilemmas for a community learning disability team posed by the arranged marriage of a Bangladeshi client with intellectual disability
- 24 December 1999
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Vol. 43 (6) , 558-561
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2788.1999.00226.x
Abstract
The present case report describes the arranged marriage of a Bangladeshi woman with moderate intellectual disability. It explores some of the social and cultural factors influencing the decision to arrange her marriage, and the dilemmas this presents in terms of bridging cultural differences between professional and lay concerns.Keywords
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