Family relatedness: a challenge for making decisions in child welfare

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2021-09-17 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16294377606424

Rosi Enroos, Tarja Pösö

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This article examines children’s and parents’ positions as rights holders and family members in child welfare decision making as seen by social workers who prepare child removal decisions. The study is based on qualitative interviews with social workers, each of which includes the story of one child’s case. The interviews were conducted in Finland, where the consent or objection expressed by parents and children of a certain age determine the decision-making process, as each of them can independently express a view about the removal proposal. The study highlights how family relatedness shapes the parties’ autonomy and self-determination through intergenerational, interparental and other dynamics of emotional and power relations. Relational autonomy is emphasised more than individual autonomy in the social workers’ descriptions. It is suggested that self-determination needs to be refined so that it acknowledges family relatedness as well as individuals as rights holders.

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家庭关系:儿童福利决策的挑战

这篇文章考察了儿童和父母作为权利持有人和家庭成员在儿童福利决策中的地位，正如准备儿童迁移决定的社会工作者所看到的那样。这项研究基于对社会工作者的定性采访，每一次采访都包括一个孩子的故事。访谈是在芬兰进行的，在芬兰，父母和某个年龄的孩子表达的同意或反对决定了决策过程，因为他们每个人都可以独立地表达对搬迁建议的看法。该研究强调了家庭关系如何通过代际、父母间和其他情感和权力关系的动态来塑造当事人的自主性和自决权。在社会工作者的描述中，关系自治比个人自治更受重视。有人建议，自决权需要完善，以承认家庭关系以及作为权利持有人的个人。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.