Mothering to death
Department of
Paediatrics and Child Health, St James's University Hospital, Leeds
LS9 7TF, UK
Correspondence to: Professor Sir Roy Meadow.
Accepted 20 November
1998
Three families are described in which the healthy only child
was, from early childhood, put to bed and treated as if ill, dependent,
and incapable. This abnormal mothering continued for 28, 45, and 48 years, respectively, and the children died as disabled adults. In each
case, the three mothers evaded medical, educational, and social
services. The origins of their behaviour are examined, and the links
with more common forms of separation anxiety, school refusal, and
perceived and factitious illness are discussed.
© 1999 by Archives of Disease in Childhood
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