scholarly journals Features of the Socio-Psychological Readiness of Substitute Parents to Overcome Difficulties in the Upbringing of Teenagers and Children Left Without Parental Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-72
Author(s):  
V.O. Volchanskaia ◽  
I.A. Merkul
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Foster Parenting

The paper describes an empirical study of socio-psychological preparedness of foster parents for taking a child into a family. The motivational and personal, cognitive and activity components that form the structure of socio-psychological readiness for foster parenting are considered. The analysis of the received data allows us to correctly organize the process of support for a foster family.

scholarly journals Foster family: from motivation to successful parenting

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1 (130)) ◽  
pp. 162-171
Author(s):  
Alla Yaroshenko
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Child Socialization ◽  
The Family ◽  
Potential Success ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
Family State

Nowadays, the problem of protecting the rights and interests of orphaned children and children deprived of parental care is gaining relevance. The family is viewed as a leading institution for child socialization, a guarantor of his/her harmonious development and satisfaction of his/her needs; therefore, foster families as a modern form of temporary family placement for children is currently deemed to be preferential. Experts gradually start to realize the necessity of transition to the “professionalization of care” in general and parenthood in particular, when care is considered as a special type of activity that implies possession of specific skills and abilities. Such activity may go beyond the domestic sphere and take place with the involvement of the family, state, market and non-governmental associations. In view of this, the development of family forms of placement requires creation of mechanisms for the selection and training of adults who intend to take children deprived of parental care into their family. The article presents motivational complexes and values encouraging parents to start a foster family. Replacement family models have been characterized in terms of the educational function implementation being successful or unsuccessful. Successful parenthood criteria have been defined at three levels: child-parent relationships, parents' interactions, interrelation between the family and society. Social and psychological features of foster parents have been analyzed, which features have an impact on successful adaptation of the family in the situation where a child is being taken into the family. The importance of taking account of additional factors that underlie potential success of a foster family has been substantiated. It is emphasized that such gender-related aspects of foster parenthood as the husbands' involvement in doing housework and looking after children, children's gender socialization, single foster parents, instances of domestic violence in foster families, etc. still have not been extensively covered in scientific literature.

scholarly journals Offspring telomere length in the long lived Alpine swift is negatively related to the age of their biological father and foster mother

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 20170188 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Criscuolo ◽  
Sandrine Zahn ◽  
Pierre Bize
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Telomere Length ◽  
Brood Size ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Growth Conditions ◽  
Early Growth ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
Biological Father ◽  
Accumulation Of Damage ◽  
Older Males

A growing body of studies is showing that offspring telomere length (TL) can be influenced by the age of their parents. Such a relationship might be explained by variation in TL at conception (gamete effect) and/or by alteration of early growth conditions in species providing parental care. In a long-lived bird with bi-parental care, the Alpine swift ( Apus melba ), we exchanged an uneven number of 2 to 4-day-old nestlings between pairs as part of a brood size manipulation. Nestling TL was measured at 50 days after hatching, which allowed investigation of the influence of the age of both their biological and foster parents on offspring TL, after controlling for the manipulation. Nestling TL was negatively related to the age of their biological father and foster mother. Nestling TL did not differ between enlarged and reduced broods. These findings suggest that offspring from older males were fertilized by gametes with shorter telomeres, presumably due to a greater cell division history or a longer accumulation of damage, and that older females may have provided poorer parental care to their offspring.

scholarly journals “In that day when we met for the frst time”: barriers and and resources of successful transition of foster-children to adulthood

Inter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Larisa L. Shpakovskaya ◽  
Zhanna V. Chernova ◽  
Elvira Sh. Garifulina
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Biological Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Empirical Material

The article aims at the analysis of children’s perception of the changes in their lives due to the loss of a biological family and moving to a foster family. We analyze how children experience and subjectively perceive their foster family life experience. On the base of children biographies we build typical life trajectories, which are shaped in institutional, interpersonal and individual level. Social and political context of the foster children autobiographies are set by the reform of deinstitutionalization of child welfare system implemented in Russia in the 2010s. The methodological framework used is the new sociology of childhood, which sees childhood as a socio-historical construct, insists on studying the subjective world of children and taking them as everyday experts. As an empirical material we analyse 253 autobiographies written by foster children and sent to a diary context “Our Stories” (Elena and Gennagy Timchenko Foundation, 2015–2017). The article presents typical biographical trajectories of foster children as stages of transition to adulthood, as well as barriers that they face in this process and resources that are made available to them by the family. The general conclusion of the article is the fact that the biographical trajectories of the transition, which are accessible for foster children are complex, diverse, and individualized. Biographies are presented by their authors not only as a result of external factors, but also as a result of their own actions, as well as the efforts of their foster parents to overcome social stigmatization.

Providing Love and Care

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Rymph
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Foster Parent ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Foster Mother ◽  
World War ◽  
Foster Parenting ◽  
Parent Role ◽  
Foster Fathers

This chapter examines the ambiguity of the foster parent role in the post-World War II period, looking particularly at analogies to other kinds of parenting. It explores efforts by child welfare professionals to reconcile their ambivalent feelings about foster parents through the creation and promotion of national standards for foster care and foster parenting. The chapter looks closely at professional writings about the foster mother role and the reasons why foster fathers received so little attention. It also examines the ways in which foster parents resisted their proscribed role, notably through attempting to adopt children in their care.

Quality foster care: who decides?

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn M. Juratowitch ◽  
Norman J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Foster Parenting ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Selection Of

The selection of foster parents with qualities necessary to undertake care of other people's children is a difficult task. Little research has been done in identifying what the associated qualities are. This paper reports the first stage of a research study examining these qualities from the perspective of foster parents themselves and experienced family care workers. From a qualitative exercise involving 10 foster parents and 2 family care workers over 50 nominated qualities were elicited covering motivation; personal attributes; knowledge and skills with children and competencies emanating from experience. Arising from this exercise a model was constructed which identifies stages in foster parenting. This could enable differential educational strategies based on a competency approach to be developed in order to achieve a better level of quality control.

scholarly journals PSYCHOSOCIAL NANISM AS A RESULT OF ATTACHMENT DEFORMATION IN CHILDREN LEFT WITHOUT PARENTAL CARE

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Valerevna Butyakova ◽  
Zhaniya Serikpaevna Tasbulatova
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Residential Care Facilities ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Completion Task ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Story Completion

Background. An important feature of psychosocial nanism is its openness to corrective influences. However, in residential care facilities, it is possible to provide only external conditions that guarantee physical security but do not form a feeling of social attachment. A way to solve the problem can be sending a child to a foster family. Aim. The article deals with considering the phenomenon of psychosocial nanism in the context of social attachment in children left without parental care (hereinafter, LWPC children) and brought up in different conditions (in foster families and residential care facilities). Materials and methods. The study was conducted on the following premises: Sandyktau Orphanage (village of Sandyktau, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan), Esil Orphanage (Esil, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan), foster families of the villages of Baitus and Kenashchi (North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan). The sample consisted of the LWPC children of preschool age brought up in an orphanage (25 people) and in foster families (25 people). Results. In LWPC children from an orphanage, the type of attachment relationship in the final diagnosis has insignificant changes in comparison with the initial diagnosis. In LWPC children from a foster family, the type of attachment has a significant difference in comparison with the initial diagnosis. There are statistically significant differences in the growth rate of LWPC  children brought up in foster families and in orphanages. Anthropometric development in children raised in a foster family is faster than in children raised in an orphanage. The type of attachment was determined using a story-completion task. Statistical processing of the research results was carried out by calculating using a story-completion task. Statistical processing of the research results was carried out by calculating the criteria for the significance of the ᵡ² differences and Mann-Whitney using the Statistica v. 15.0 software. Conclusion. Psychosocial nanism as a functional feature of the body manifested in reduced body length compared with peers and being the result of adverse conditions of the external and internal environment is leveled into normal physical developmentprovided that there is an object of attachment, who will act as a stabilizer of emotional, psychological and physical safety of a child.

scholarly journals Socio-pedagogical factors of interaction in the substitute family

KANT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-388
Author(s):  
Galina Solomatina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Foster Child ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Birth Family

This article is dedicated to one of the current problems of our time – research of factors affecting relations of foster family members. External factors (deprivation conditions of parenting prior to acceptance of a child into foster family, experienced violence in the birth family, difficulties in school educational process, bilingual environment) as well as internal factors (organic diseases of CNS of a foster child, level of education and cultural values of foster parents, personal aspects and qualities of a foster child and foster parents); such factors cause problems in engagement and relations in a foster family. Proficiency in these factors study are beneficial in functional build-up of family relationship.

scholarly journals On the issue of socialization of orphaned children in a foster family: pedagogical aspect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.Р. Гельмутдинова
Keyword(s):  
Parental Care ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Orphaned Children ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Family ◽  
Pedagogical Aspect

Актуальность статьи обусловлена тем, что в условиях интернатного учреждения ребенок, оставшийся без попечения родителей, не имеет возможности полноценно социализироваться. Цель статьи заключается в выявлении ресурсов приемной семьи в оказании помощи таким детям стать полноценными членами общества, научиться управлять своим поведением в соответствии с принятыми нормами и ценностями, так как именно семья является важнейшим институтом социализации. Автором выявлены сущность и содержание процесса социализации, особенности его протекания в условиях приемной семьи, определены уровни социализированности ребенка. Предложены критерии оценки составляющих процесса социализации и соответствующий диагностический инструментарий. Статья предназначена для специалистов органов опеки и попечительства, сотрудников интернатных учреждений, социальных педагогов. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that in the conditions of a boarding institution, a child left without parental care does not have the opportunity to fully socialize. The purpose of the article is to identify the resources of a foster family in helping such children become full-fledged members of society, learn to manage their behavior in accordance with accepted norms and values, since it is the family that is the most important institution of socialization. The author reveals the essence and content of the process of socialization, the peculiarities of its course in the conditions of a foster family, the levels of socialization of the child are determined. The criteria for evaluating the components of the socialization process and the corresponding diagnostic tools are proposed. The article is intended for specialists of guardianship and guardianship authorities, employees of boarding institutions, social educators

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS OF SOCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE CREATION AND FUNCTIONING OF A FOSTER FAMILY

2021 ◽  
pp. 182-186
Author(s):  
Vira Syniakova 
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Climate ◽  
Foster Family ◽  
Component Structure ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Creation

The urgency of the problem of social and biological orphanhood in modern Ukraine is determined by constant growth and is determined by socio-economic, moral and ethical, psychological difficulties of functioning. Most children deprived of parental care are in state educational institutions, which unfortunately are not able to exercise individual educational influence on each child. Accordingly, the priority form of placement of orphans of family education. The success of the functioning of these forms is possible under the conditions of the effectiveness of their social support. The purpose of the article is to analyze the leading areas of social support of foster families and to determine the psychological basis of social support for the creation and functioning of a foster family. To achieve this goal, the following research methods were applied: at the first stage, we conducted a theoretical analysis, in particular, analysis of the scientific literature and semantic analysis of concepts to identify the component structure of social support; the second stage is the stage of expert evaluation using the method of focal objects (model of the psychological climate of the foster family). The article proves that the condition for successful socialization of a child in a foster family is a favorable psychological climate, which is realized through the following components: (i) Cognitive (intellectual) − objective ideas and knowledge about the specific psychological characteristics and needs of a child left without parental care; taking into account the individual characteristics of the child's development; understanding of its interests and values; (ii) Personal − motivation of potential parents, their expectations and attitudes towards the unborn child, personal characteristics (empathy, flexibility, resistance to stress); conducting pathocharacterological diagnosis; (iii) Activity − the presence of experience in raising children, the peculiarities of existing educational skills, taking into account their own children's experience; (iv) Family − the functioning of the family as a system, the peculiarities of relations in the family, in its subsystems (child-parent, marital), the involvement of the family in social life, the willingness to cooperate with professionals. Improving each component is a prerequisite for the successful functioning of the foster family.

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