title: 'Framed': Terminating the Parenting Rights of Parents with Intellectual Disability in Iceland.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim was to investigate the role of measured intellectual function in framing parents as 'unfit' in child custody deprivation cases.
  
  
  METHODS
  Grounded theory was used to analyse a national sample of custody deprivation cases in Iceland 2002-2014.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The terminology used to evaluate and describe the intellectual and developmental status of parents in child deprivation custody cases served as a device to define and shape the 'unfit parent'. Intellect itself, whether as low, average or even above average at times acts as a master narrative which informs and explains all manner of perceived parental deficiencies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intellectual and developmental status served as a yardstick of identifying, understanding and interpreting the unfit parent. As a tool to achieve an end, parents were framed in language and culture using underlying belief set to make sense of events and issues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Human Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
authors.forename: Hanna Björg
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Sigurjónsdóttir
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Human Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
authors.forename: James Gordon
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Rice
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002655:Child Custody / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007055:Iceland; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D010290:Parents
keywords: child custody deprivation; parents with intellectual disability