Arnaud, Sara Hayes2016-04-072016-04-0719571957b1463787xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2144/15458Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityThe purpose of this study was to investigate certain psychological characteristics of children who have been exposed to the type of family disruption that occurs when a parent is chronically ill and remains in the home. The specific illness focussed upon, as a representative of this class of disease, was multiple sclerosis (M S), a chronic, progressively disabling neurologic disorder that strikes the young adult population in an apparently random way. [TRUNCATED]en-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions.Thesis/Dissertation