Personal projections of paraparental care on young people

Abstract

The research interest is the encounter with the current problems considering the worldwide tendency towards an increasing share of labor migrants who leave their children behind to other people. The paraparental care is a new phenomenon in the modern man life, which defines the specific care of children with parents who are labor migrants. In the interim essential are a group of other issues related to the socio-pedagogical peculiarities of this care. The objective of this article is to study the influence on young people of this specific care. The research is based on the qualitative methodology and is realized by means of the semi-structural interview. My expectations are pointed towards the absence of the parent(s) which is the main cause of changes in children’s social maturity. In this critical situation, the respondents point out that they have personal qualities that have not yet demonstrated – assertiveness, self-analysis, responsibility, etc. In general, there is a need to support children in a situation of paraparental care with the help of important family members (when possible) and by competent professionals to work in a preventive and corrective plan with children and adolescents within the family and, if necessary, outside.