Religie en cultuur in familierechtelijke beslissingen over kinderen

Spaendonck, Rozemarijn van; Tigchelaar, Jet

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“…Greater emphasis is placed on this right when it concerns children of parents with a religious-minority background, since the protection of ethnoreligious minority groups is also emphasized in the CRC, in Article 30. Jurisprudence in the Netherlandsobserved in court cases around religious diversity and foster care-demonstrates that article 30 of the CRC is interpreted as having access to religion or religious infrastructure rather than the right to full continuity of religious socialization from birth parents (Jonker et al, 2015). An important ethical perspective which has influenced the legal framework in the Netherlands (and beyond) around religion and foster care in this respect, is the notion that birth parents should be able to exercise influence on the type of religious knowledge and practices that their child is introduced to.…”

Section: Religious Differences Between Foster Children Foster Parents and Birth Parents: Moral Dilemmasmentioning

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Moral Dilemmas in Foster Care Due to Religious Differences Between Birth Parents, Foster Parents, and Foster Children

Bergen

Saharso

Degener

et al. 2022

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Many ethnoreligious-minority foster children in several western countries, including the Netherlands, are placed and permanently live with ethnically and religiously non-matched foster families (i.e., in trans-religious foster care). We examine whether and which moral dilemmas exist around the issue of how religion should be weighted in trans-religious foster care to provide ethnoreligious-minority foster children with healthy identity development. We applied a thematic analysis to 17 qualitative interviews (seven foster parent/foster child dyads and three foster parents) taken from two pre-existing datasets. We retrieved five moral dilemmas in trans-religious foster care placements, which are discussed in relation to the following ethical arguments: (1) pressure from birth parents and parents of foster children to abide by their religious praxis; (2) objections of the foster family to the faith of the birth family; (3) a switch to the faith of the foster family by the foster child; (4) challenges to the religious identity searches of foster children due to ethnoreligious boundary drawing between majority and minority groups; and (5) the impact of religious traditions on the bodily integrity of foster children. We argue that it is in the best interest of foster children to have a foster family who, when making (some) religious choices on their behalf, is sensitive to the particular child and their developing identity with regard to their religious ideas and beliefs. Foster families need support regarding religious reflection and religious self-determinism in their foster children.

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Section: Religious Differences Between Foster Children Foster Parents and Birth Parents: Moral Dilemmasmentioning

confidence: 99%