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Battling parenting :
Battling parenting : The consequences of secure care interventions on parents
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- Allgurin, Monika, 1982- (author)
- Jönköping University,HHJ, Avdelningen för socialt arbete,HHJ. ARN-J (Aging Research Network - Jönköping),HHJ. SALVE (Socialt arbete, Livssammanhang, Välfärd),Jönköping University, Sweden
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- Enell, Sofia (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA),RISCY,Faculty of Social Science, Department of Social Work, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
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- 2022-07-08
- 2023
- English.
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In: Child & Family Social Work. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1356-7500 .- 1365-2206. ; 28:1, s. 108-116
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- Secure care in Sweden is the most intrusive child welfare intervention, and children and their family members have restricted contact. For each child in secure care, there are at least twice as many affected family members and parents who must manage the consequences of this institutionalization. Clearly, it is just as important to understand how secure care affects parents as it is to understand how secure care affects children. To address this issue, we conducted in-depth interviews with 11 parents to eight children who had been placed in secure care during their childhood, focusing on the institutional and societal structures that affected these parents and their parenting. With a narrative approach, stories alluding to a metaphor of war are identified. These stories reveal how all parents (but especially single mothers) are affected by their diverse socio-economic positions and the rigid frames of family life presumed by child welfare interventions. In these narratives, parenting emerges as a social practice rather than a skill. Above all, the stories demonstrate a great deal of vulnerability and sensitivity of parenting. The findings raise critical questions about the meaning and overarching consequences of institutional interventions in a family life.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- child welfare
- ethnicity
- gender
- institutions
- parenting
- social class
- article
- child
- child parent relation
- childhood
- clinical article
- family life
- female
- human
- interview
- literature
- narrative
- single parent
- skill
- vulnerability
- Socialt arbete
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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