ISBN : 9782296565258
FOSTER CARE IN EUROPE: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN A PARADOXICAL INTERVENTION
Recommending that a child should be fostered and brought up away from their family is no simple task, especially when this recommendation seems more like a tax. When this decision is taken in the midst of a family crisis, it affects the outlook of the family, the upbringing of the child and the roles of the parents. Emotions run very high for the child during the separation from his parents, just as they do for the family that will foster this child, an outsider who, from this moment on, will be a part of their lives. The power relationships are also clearly under stress, and it is hard work to reach a constructive consensus. Why is it so difficult, in each and every country that offers this sort of foster care?...