This special issue speaks to recent trends in the study of parents and parenting with intellectual disabilities. Research included in the special issue consolidates and expands knowledge in four key areas; 1) parenting skills and training, 2) contextual factors, 3) children of parents with intellectual disabilities, and 4) parental experiences and resistance strategies.

This special issue of Frontline, the Irish voice of intellectual disability, includes a number of interesting and useful articles including: Parenting with Intellectual Disability: what does it take to make it work? by Margaret Spencer and; Parents and parenting with intellectual disabilities: Messages from research by David McConnell and Laura Pacheco