scholarly journals »Vulnerable Families«: Reflections on a Difficult Category

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Petra Bauer ◽  
Christine Wiezorek
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Vulnerable Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Living

The term “vulnerable families” refers to familial living situations that are considered problematic, with a particular need for socially responsible, professionally provided support. This means of categorising families is extremely ambivalent, indicating not only a need for society to support forms of family life and family achievements, but also a particular need to protect children growing up within the family. It also has implications for an understanding of interventions geared to the riskiness of family living situations and their standardisation, an understanding that risks losing sight of families’ variety and individual peculiarities. Families in need of support have a fundamental right for their individuality and parenthood to be recognised. A detailed case analysis of a social worker who is working with a family in which a child’s wellbeing is at risk shows how transferring standardising ideas about the family can damage that basic right. The article thus calls for the category of vulnerability to be applied to families with reflection on the specific case and on implicit normative leanings.

The Synod on the Family

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church Teaching

This chapter provides a case analysis of the Catholic Church’s Synod on the Family, an assembly of bishops convened in Rome in October 2014 and October 2015, to address the changing nature of Catholics’ lived experiences of marriage and family life. The chapter argues that the Synod can be considered a postsecular event owing to its deft negotiation of the mutual relevance of doctrinal ideas and Catholic secular realities. It shows how its extensive pre-Synod empirical surveys of Catholics worldwide, its language-group dialogical structure, and the content and outcomes of its deliberations, by and large, met postsecular expectations, despite impediments posed by clericalism and doctrinal politics. The chapter traces the Synod’s deliberations, and shows how it managed to forge a more inclusive understanding of divorced and remarried Catholics, even as it reaffirmed Church teaching on marriage and also set aside a more inclusive recognition of same-sex relationships.

scholarly journals Homoseksuelle foreldre – (u)vanlige familier? Ungdom, unge og voksnes oppveksterfaringer fra familier med homoseksuelle foreldre

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorid Krane Hanssen
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Normal Families ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Family ◽  
Same Sex Parents ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Key Words Family

Familier er konstruerte på svært mange ulike måter. Denne ulikheten og dette mangfoldet kan utrykkes som a bewildering variety of alternative lifestyles (Cheal 1999), hvilket indikerer behovet for å stille spørsmål om “familien“ virkelig eksisterer. Denne artikkelen er en del av et større studie som innebefatter intervjuer med 25 personer i alderen 15 til 45 år. Felles for disse er at de alle har vokst opp med homoseksuelle foreldre. Fokuset i denne artikkelen er hvilken betydning begrepet “familie“ har for dem; hvordan de definerer familierela-sjoner og familiemedlemmer, hvordan de vurderer sine familier i forhold til hva samfunnet aksepterer/ikke-aksepterer, og hvilken betydning foreldreskapet har for dem. I artikkelens første del diskuteres familiebegrepet ut fra et perspektiv knyttet til forståelsen av mangfold og ulikhet, mens andre delen av artikkelen diskuterer informantenes refleksjoner hovedsakelig i lys av begrepene doing family og family relations. Hensikten med artikkelen er å gi et innblikk i hvilke erfaringer og refleksjoner ungdom, unge og voksne med homoseksuelle foreldre har gjort seg ved å vokse opp i disse tilsynelatende “uvanlige“ familiene. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Jorid Krane Hanssen: Homosexual Parents – (Un)normal Families? Some Experiences from Growing up in Families with Homosexual Parents Families are constructed in many different ways. The diversity can be expressed as a bewildering variety of alternative lifestyles (Cheal 1999), and indicates the need for a discussion whether “the family“ really exists. The analysis re-ported on in this article is part of a larger study, based on in-depth interviews with 25 persons – aged 15 to 45 – who have grown up with homosexual parents. The focus in this particular article is on how “family“ is experienced and conceptualized among the interviewees. The article discusses how the interviewees construct their images of family, family-life and parenthood, and also how they reflect upon whether their families are accepted as “real“ families in the society. The first part of the article discusses the concept of family from a perspective of diversity, while the second part concentrates on the interviewees’ reflections in relation to two main themes in the analysis; “doing family“ and “family relations“. The aim of the article is to provide some insight into the life of families with same-sex parents, from the perspective of those who actually have grown up in these families. Key words: Family, relations, homosexual parents, parenthood, diversity.

A Developmental Approach to Helping Families at Risk

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
June B. Ruger ◽  
Roberta H. Wooten
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Life Education ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Family Service ◽  
Education Group ◽  
The Family ◽  
Life Education

The resources of family service and public agencies are combined to help parents work toward the return of children in placement. This family life education group provides these at-risk parents with alternative parenting skills and may be the first step the family takes toward counseling.

scholarly journals Home and group-based implementation of the “Growing Up Happily in the Family” program in at-risk psychosocial contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Míriam Álvarez ◽  
Sonia Padilla ◽  
M.ª Luisa Máiquez
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Family Program ◽  
The Family

scholarly journals SOCIAL SUPPORT OF A FAMILY-TYPE ORPHANAGE

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-227
Author(s):  
Oksana Fushteі 
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Term Care ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

The article reveals the social support of a family-type orphanage, which is a type of social work that involves the implementation of centers of social services for young people in the system of long-term care through the provision of comprehensive social services by social workers involved, if necessary, professionals, parents -teachers in order to protect and realize the rights of children who are in their upbringing. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of social support of a family-type orphanage. Research methods apllied: generalization, concretization, synthesis, theoretical analysis of sources. The author describes the content of stages of development of a family-type orphanage and features of interaction between a social worker and a family and a social institution of a family-type orphanage, which are to help the client understand his real problems and distinguish them from problems created by him; help to make a decision on this problem and address the person to a specialist to solve the problem by appropriate methods. This allows to formulate the tasks of a social worker of the center of social services for youth and to identify problems of social support of the family − the team, rehabilitation, socio-therapeutic, which specifies the content of their activities, consisting of a list of services (advisory, informational, socio-pedagogical, psychological, socio-economic, legal, socio-medical). In our opinion, such work contributes to the restoration of the family’s independence in solving its problems through learning to solve and prevent these problems, reduce the impact of the problem on family life, prevent its crisis and disintegration, eliminate the consumer approach to society and creating conditions for normal family life. The results of the study are a substantiation of the content, tasks and main functions of social support of family-type orphanages, which is a form of state support for the family in the interests of the child. Prospects for further research in this direction, we see in the disclosure of the functions of a social worker in preparing the child to leave the orphanage and into independent living.

scholarly journals PERAN ORANGTUA KRISTIANI DALAM MEMBANGUN PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER ANAK

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Natalis Sukma Permana
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Church

Parents totally have crucial role on growing up the character education in family life. From parents, the children learn the way of respecting others, loving to the diversity, respecting differences in point of view and being humble. The Catholic family is a “ecclesia domestica” (family church), the smallest part of the church. Therefore, it is not only a place of the growth and development of the Catholic faith, but also a place of strengthening the values ​​of love according to Jesus ways the eternal Teacher. Character education grows in a family life. From and within the family environment, children learn ethical values, manners, and things that are not desirable in the social environment. Along the times, the challenges of families in educating children increasingly grave. The technology advances have disrupted many dimensions of life, including the warmth in a family life.

The Family Book of Child Care

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-518
Author(s):  
EDWIN A. HARPER
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Care Family ◽  
Comprehensive Treatise ◽  
Family Living

This book is much more than a manual covering the routines of child care from conception to puberty. It is a comprehensive treatise upon family living with emphasis upon the child. In addition to advice about feeding, bathing, training, etc., there are practical chapters on "How to Have a Comfortable Home," "Money is a Part of Child Care," "Family Life and Moral Values," "Emotions are Fundamental," and "Work and Play: A Foundation for Happiness." As the preface states: "This book is written for mothers and fathers who expect to enjoy raising a family; it is written for the couples who are making bigger families popular again."

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