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- Franséhn, Mona, 1950
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Den dolda triaden. Om ensamstående mödrar med söner och deras behov av stöd inom socialtjänsten
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of the thesis is to discuss and understand different aspects of the family life that lone mothers with sons develop in relation to absent fathers and the support from social services. The study is based upon nine case studies, each of them including qualitative interviews with the mother, the son (age 1318), the male contact person from social services and the responsible social worker. Furthermore three biological fathers and a few managers and youth workers with connection to the cases have been interviewed. Discourses on motherhood and fatherhood as well as modern family life and different kinds of relationships between lone mothers and sons are discussed both theoretically and empirically. The study shows that the lone motherhood for this group of vulnerable mothers is very complex. They have in general a mother-centring view, taking on the main responsibility for the family life and also for the present problems in the family. It is obvious that the mothers are definable not only as lone mothers but primarily as lone-responsible for the family life. Even when new partners are entering their lives, the picture of lone-responsible motherhood remains. The psychological family is intact in spite of the fact that new adults are coming into the family sphere. The different kinds of relationships that are formed between mothers and sons are initially categorized as close, indifferent and balanced on the basis of the informants own views. The actual contact between the father and the son and mother has a relatively subordinate importance for how the relationship between mother and son is formed. Instead the joint construction of the father figure, a reference father, and the way the mother and son relate to this construction in different situations are more significant. A negative construction of the father seems to strengthen the relationship between mother and son and the development of a close relationship. Though the fathers are in principle absent, they seem to be extremely present as psychological father figures in these families. The access to siblings, the provision of support from the social network, and the sons social contacts are important factors that affect the family life and the relationship between mothers and sons. At the same time it is evident that the mothers feelings of insufficiency can be related to structural reasons such as exclusion from the labour market, bad health and weak economy. From this perspective the previous categories of relationships can be redefined from psychoanalytical terms with social family descriptions referring to isolated, transformed, and socially established families. The social hardship that some of these families experience will to a great extent affect what kind of relationships mothers and sons develop. Despite an overall conception of lone mothers as an accepted and well-functioning family form, traditional ideals are manifest in the interaction between the families and social services. The absence of the father is assumed to imply a need for limits and authority, which are to be transformed into male functions. The contact persons look upon themselves as male role models and as possible identification objects for the sons. The social workers are in general less attached to the idea of male role models and stress instead the importance of access to other adults. At the same time it is obvious that there exists a hidden gender discourse in their argumentation in favour of using male contact persons. With the help of the contact persons they aim to compensate for a negative father figure by presenting alternative male ideals.
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- Franséhn, Mona, 1950, et al.
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Family formation and earnings
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the Social change and Social Professions conference in Parma in March 15-17, 2007..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The overall goal of this study is to find out what impact work, education and the individual life story have on individual’s transition to parenthood in contemporary multiethnic Sweden. Does family formation differ between individuals with Swedish and individuals with other ethnic background? The study is based on interviews with a life story approach with three different groups of couples that recently have become parents (first child 6-15 months). The groups are young adults with parents born in Sweden, young adults with parents born in Turkey and a mixed group of couples where one part has parents born in Sweden and one in Turkey. The main focus is to explore why these couples have taken the decision to become parents at this stage of their lives. Which kinds of considerations, experiences and knowledge are important for their choices? What does it mean to become a parent, how does individual and collective structures interact in the decision to become a parent, how does men and women balance independence and autonomy with class and ethnicity taken into account, how does men and women balance their individual versus the collective family project? The study deals with commonalities and differences between the three groups in relation to the Swedish welfare system and to traditions in each group based on culture, nationality and family traditions. The analysis shows so far that starting a family is much more of an individual life project for the Swedish group of parents. The Swedish social policy and insurance system seem to have an impact on their way of acting. Economy, work and housing conditions are very important for their decision. For the Turkish group starting a family is much more of a collective project related to culture and family traditions. They do not have the same reliability on the welfare state but more on their own families. The mixed group have more of negotiations and conflicts, trying to balance their different views of family life. Key words: family life, welfare, autonomy/dependency, ethnicity
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- Franséhn, Mona, 1950
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Laypersons or professionals? Ambivalence about voluntary contact persons in social services in Sweden
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - 2156-857X .- 2156-8588. ; 6:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ABSTRACT Sweden has a long tradition of using ordinary people, often named laypersons, as supportive persons within the area of social services. One of the most popular interventions is to support children and teenagers by using a volunteer contact family (CF) or contact person (CP). The intervention was introduced in the Social Services Act, implemented in 1982, and at present about 19,000 young persons in Sweden have this intervention. In practice, it is regarded as two interventions, CF and CP. The article will only deal with CPs for teenagers. Despite this is a very popular intervention, there is a lack of knowledge about how it works and has developed during these three decades. Research dealing with the CP intervention takes partly contradictory views. Qualitative studies often stress positive experiences of all categories involved, while a comprehensive quantitative study recently presented results, indicating that the intervention seemed to increase the risk of being placed in out-of-home care in the future. The aim of the article is to explore and illustrate how the CP intervention works today in relation to the original intensions in law and which types of persons that are appointed for the CP assignments. The impact of the professional development in social work will be discussed in the analysis. The results will tell us something about the progress and development of the intervention but also the organisational context in which social services exist in Sweden today.
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