Barnets beste: Barnevernets formål i spenning mellom individuelle og relasjonelle hensyn

Eide, Solveig Botnen

doi:10.23865/noasp.95.ch6

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“…Formally, this is a question of how the child's rights should be weighed against parental rights. These rights may pull in the same direction, but not infrequently they may conflict (Berrick, 2018;Eide, 2020). These issues have come to the fore in recent years, because Norway has repeatedly been convicted in the European Court of Human Rights for violations of the right to family life, in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.…”

Section: The Norwegian Child Welfare Servicesfamily-oriented and Chil...mentioning

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Norwegian Child Welfare Cases in the European Court of Human Rights – an Ethical Perspective on the Judgments

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2024

Child Welfare and the Significance of Family

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In this chapter, light is shed on one of the many Norwegian child welfare cases that have been handled by the European Court of Human Rights. The case is particularly important as a source of legal understanding of what the right to family life amounts to in such cases. The most important lesson domestic authorities can learn from the judgment is that substantial weight has to be placed on the goal of reunification between natural parents and a child who is in public care. The focus of the chapter is the moral basis of this goal. By scrutinising the judges’ reasoning, I trace the family values and normative ethical approaches (duty, consequentialist and virtue ethical) that are expressed in the judgment. I conclude by pointing to a possible danger in the Court’s emphasis on the value-based duty ethical principle of reunification, namely that other considerations of what is best for a child are overshadowed. I defend a virtue ethical approach to child welfare cases, characterised by holistic reasoning in deciding what is best for the child.

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Section: The Norwegian Child Welfare Servicesfamily-oriented and Chil...mentioning

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Norwegian Child Welfare Cases in the European Court of Human Rights – an Ethical Perspective on the Judgments

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2024

Child Welfare and the Significance of Family

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Child Welfare and the Significance of Family

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The chapter examines the changing relationships between children, families and the state, and their impact on the Norwegian child welfare services authority. It discusses the evolution of concepts of family and parental rights, providing a historical backdrop of state-family interactions with a focus on children. The importance of the parent-child relationship's quality and caregiver duties are emphasized, alongside human rights considerations, referencing European Court of Human Rights cases and the Norwegian Child Welfare Act. The chapter underscores the necessity for child welfare services to evaluate the family network, parental competence, relationship quality and child development critically.

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Problemer med foreldresamvær i barnevernet – unge voksnes fortellinger

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2021

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De fleste som vokser opp i fosterhjem, har kontakt med foreldre, og det iverksettes betydelige ressurser for å gjennomføre foreldresamvaer. Dette er i tråd med samvaersretten og bygger på kulturelle verdier der relasjonen mellom barn og biologiske foreldre har avgjørende betydning. Forskningslitteraturen kan hevdes å bekrefte viktigheten av foreldresamvaer, men viser også at det kan vaere problematisk. De vanskelige sidene har fått mindre oppmerksomhet i den fagpolitiske debatten. Med utgangspunkt i kvalitative intervjuer med 26 unge voksne som vokste opp i slektsfosterhjem, retter vi fokuset mot deres samvaersfortellinger og problemene de vektlegger. Hensikten er å gå i dybden på hva problemer kan vaere, samt utvide rammene for hvilke fortellinger som skal gis plass og gyldighet når samvaer etter omsorgsovertakelse diskuteres.

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Barnets beste: Barnevernets formål i spenning mellom individuelle og relasjonelle hensyn

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Norwegian Child Welfare Cases in the European Court of Human Rights – an Ethical Perspective on the Judgments

Norwegian Child Welfare Cases in the European Court of Human Rights – an Ethical Perspective on the Judgments

Child Welfare and the Significance of Family

Problemer med foreldresamvær i barnevernet – unge voksnes fortellinger

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