ISBN : 9782296565258
A STUDY OF THE SUBJECTIVE ISSUES AND PROFESSIONALIZATION OF FOSTER CARE
The majority of countries allow for the modalities involved when taking into care or bringing up children who have been deprived of sufficient parental protection. For thirty years now, France has chosen to oversee the foster care of children with specific legislation that gives professional training to one of the foster parents8, most often the mother of the family. Gradually, the changing professional status and working conditions of those that we call today ‘foster carers'9 mean that this job is being placed under one title. For us, this runs the risk of forgetting or at the very least underestimating the uniqueness of this particular social work....