Growing up with Parents who have Learning Difficulties uses a life‎-story approach to present new evidence about how children from such families manage the transition to adulthood‎,‎ and about the longer‎-term outcomes of such an upbringing‎.‎ It offers a view of parental competence as a social attribute rather than an individual skill‎,‎ assessing the implications for institutional policies and practices‎.‎ The authors address the notion of children having to parent their disabled parents and argue for a shift in emphasis from protecting children to supporting families‎.‎ This innovative book provides a fresh approach to a subject rife with prejudice and challenges us to think again about many taken‎-for‎-granted ideas about the process of parenting and the needs of children‎.‎ It also demonstrates the power of narrative research and its capacity for bringing alive people‎'‎s experience in a way that enables us to better understand their lives‎.‎