Children with Sickle-Cell Anemia: Parental Relations, Parent-Child Relations, and Child Behavior

how the presence of a child with sickle cell anemia affects the child's family. However, clinical reports on such families and empirical data available on how the presence of children with other chronic ill nesses affects family dynamics both suggest that the presence of a child with sickle-cell anemia indeed may influence the ways in which family members interact with each other and with others beyond the family. Hence, the goal of this research was to ex plore how a child with sickle-cell anemia shapes family dynamics. In clinical work with families, several authors have reported that parents who have