title: Family Care of People with Intellectual Disability in Rural China: A Magnified Responsibility.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Welfare for the disabled is becoming an important issue in China and care for people with intellectual disability is challenging because of the inadequacies in formal support and the social service system.
  
  
  METHODS
  Based on ethnographic research in two villages in North China, this paper analyses the dilemmas of family care for people with intellectual disability. The essential data is the ethnographic record of three cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Rural families strive to provide care through a set of arrangements and bear tremendous stress in the process.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Family care for people with intellectual disability in rural China has been increasingly challenged by the forces of labour migration, demographic changes and the ever-growing processes of commoditization. The role of the state has to be strengthened in welfare provision to balance the weakened family care ethos in transforming societies.
authors.affiliation: College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD), China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Rd, Beijing, 100193, China.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD), China Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan West Rd, Beijing, 100193, China.
authors.forename: Jingzhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ye
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012424:Rural Population; D012944:Social Support; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: family care; intellectual disability; rural China; social transition; social welfare