The Abused and Neglected Foster Child: Determinants of Emotional Conflict and Oppositional Behavior

Greene, Beverly; Pilowsky, Daniel J.

doi:10.1007/bf02087761

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“…The sole difference between adoption and fostering lies in legal questions concerning filiation. In contrast with adoptive parents, foster parents have the possibility of maintaining the relationship between the foster child and its biological parents on the basis that the prognosis for the development of foster children is better if the relationship between foster and biological parents is good (Greene and Pilowsky, 1994). However, this is a very important difference between the two groups, since it shows the wish of the adoptive parent to obtain more than just the (legal) facilities to raise a child in their family.…”

Section: Social Parenthoodmentioning

confidence: 90%

The legal management of (social) parenthood: adoption and Dutch family policy

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2002

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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The Dutch adoption law of 1956 enabled Dutch family policy to re-locate some children from an 'immoral' life with their unmarried mother to a 'normal'family life. However, since the normalization and social acceptance of 'families with a difference' in the 1980s, the supply of the children of Dutch nationals for adoption has fallen. Alongside this, there has remained a consistent demand from childless couples to adopt. This helps to explain a rise in the numbers of international adoptions and an increased focus on the interests of adoptive parents. This is reflected in an increased acceptance of the 'right of parenthood'-as is the growth of reproductive technology. Since parenthood has increasingly come to be seen as a social construct, traditional criteria for allowing adults to adopt a child have been increasingly questioned. Dutch legislators have moved in the direction of 'social parenthood', taking 'care'as the decisive factor in defining legalized parenthood.

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Section: Social Parenthoodmentioning

confidence: 90%