Family members, HPs, strangers and their own children
blamed parents for the burn injury. In response, parents in
this study used a process of Enduring the Blame that
involved internalizing, submitting, rising above, anticipating
and avoiding blame. Enduring the Blame was a nonlinear
cyclical process with parents anticipating and
encountering blame at all phases of the burn-injury
trajectory.As parents endured blame they engaged in activities to protect themselves from further blame. Many
findings of this research in India are congruent with
research in other countries.