Comparing population views on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics

Securing permanence for children in care: A cross‐country analysis of citizen's view on adoption versus foster care

“…Kumlin & Haugsgjerd, 2017). As of lately, several studies have examine the child protective system (Berrick et al, 2022a;Helland et al, 2022;Skivenes, 2021;Skivenes & Benbenishty, 2022) and the welfare state policies (Roosma & van Oorschot, 2020;Svallfors, 1996Svallfors, , 2012Valarino et al, 2018) with the opposite approach: Public attitudes, preferences and opinions are regarded as a dependent variable, in which policies and welfare institutions influence citizens' attitudes and their perspectives on the role and status of the welfare system and its values and norms. The empirical focus is an understudied part of the welfare state, the child protection system that shall protect children when the family or parents are maltreating or neglecting them.…”

Legitimate child protection interventions and the dimension of confidence: A comparative analysis of populations views in six European countries

“…Because people's views on child protection are an understudied area in general (Berger and Slack, 2020), and with only a few studies that compare people's attitudes towards interventions (Berrick et al, 2019(Berrick et al, , 2021Burns et al, 2021;Helland et al, 2020Helland et al, , 2022Schmid and Benbenishty, 2011), we believe it is particularly relevant to examine and expand the knowledge base about the role and place of both people's confidence in and moral alignment with the system. Our operationalisation of confidence is based on an understanding of procedural justice as a source of legitimacy if actions and procedures follow just laws, and power is exercised in normatively appropriate ways (Beetham, 1991in Heywood, 2004Rawls, 1993;Tyler and Trinkner, 2018).…”

“…Our study includes six European countries, and we use institutional context to understand confidence level (Berrick et al, 2021;Helland et al, 2022;Svallfors, 2012;Valarino et al, 2018). Two frameworks that relate to this idea are theories of policy feedback (which builds on the premise that policies affect politics over time; see, e.g.…”

“…We see the institutional and cultural context that people are embedded in as formative for their views on what should be a collective responsibility and how society should be built. In line with several other studies (Berrick et al, 2021;Boelens et al, 2010;Helland et al, 2022;Skivenes and Benbenishty, 2022a), we use the CPS as institutional context (see e.g. Valarino et al (2018) using leave policy as institutional context).…”

High Conflicts as Wicked Problems from the Perspective of Family Counsellor and Child Welfare Services in Norway

“…This study was conducted in Norway, where child and family public services are organised within the overall welfare state. Norway is a nation with a strong element of control and where public services have authority to make intrusive interventions into family life (Helland, Pedersen, & Skivenes, 2022). Like Australia, Norway is one of the few countries to have mandatory mediation when parents split up, framed within the Children Act (1981) article 51.…”