The Rights of Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care

Hestbæk, Anne-Dorthe

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94800-3_7

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“…In Denmark, Heastbaek (2016) developed a study on 11 to 17-year-olds living in outof-home care and concluded that young people placed in residential care often display more serious problems than those referred to foster care. She also found out that they do not feel safe, heard, or loved by the adults around them to the same extent as do other young people in care; and only a third consider their residential home a very good place to grow up.…”

Section: The Subjective Well-being Of Children In Carementioning

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The Subjective Well-Being of Portuguese Children in Foster Care, Residential Care and Children Living with their Families: Challenges and Implications for a Child Care System Still Focused on Institutionalization

Delgado¹,

Carvalho²,

Montserrat

et al. 2019

Child Ind Res

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Most studies with children in out-of-home care highlight the problems and challenges associated with residential or foster care, and few have investigated the well-being of these children. The aim of this study is to compare the subjective well-being (SWB) of children hosted in institutions and in foster families with the well-being of children living with their families. We used a sample of 422 children, aged between 11 and 15, being 39 in foster care, 145 in residential care, and 238 living with their families in the general population. We measured SWB with the Personal Well-being Index-School Children (PWI-SC9) and we evaluated the impact of several variables in this index. Results indicate that children in residential care have a lower SWB in all variables compared to foster care and general populations groups. These outcomes should challenge children's public policies to change from a dominant positive attitude toward institutionalisation to a more successful approach based on foster care families. This approach will provide the opportunity for children in out-of-home care to grow up in a family, and improve their SWB, which can probably ensure a better life trajectory. Keywords: Children . Subjective well-being . Families . Foster care . Residential care 1 The Children's Subjective Well-BeingIt is possible to distinguish between three approaches to well-being (Parfit 1984). The first is based on objective lists of things that others think we need to achieve a good life.

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Section: The Subjective Well-being Of Children In Carementioning

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The Subjective Well-Being of Portuguese Children in Foster Care, Residential Care and Children Living with their Families: Challenges and Implications for a Child Care System Still Focused on Institutionalization

Delgado¹,

Carvalho²,

Montserrat

et al. 2019

Child Ind Res

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“…Within recent research focused on children's subjective well-being (SWB), several studies have concluded that the subjective well-being of children in residential care is significantly lower than that of children living with their families (Heastbaek 2016;Lausten and Fredriksen 2016;Delgado et al 2017Delgado et al , 2019. Additionally, those studies concluded that children in residential care presented a higher rate of school failure and have fewer opportunities to decide on the use they make of their spare time, especially with regard to family relationships or leisure activities.…”

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Young Teenagers’ Views Regarding Residential Care in Portugal and Spain: A Qualitative Study

et al. 2021

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Research on residential care has been well established in the literature. Nonetheless, research drawing from the actual experiences of adolescents is relatively scarce. A qualitative study was designed highlighting the voices of children, analysing their fostering experience, interpersonal relationships, their participation in daily decisions, and future aspirations. The sample included 33 early adolescents in residential care aged 12–14 in Portugal (n = 17) and Spain (n = 16). Results showed that there was agreement in terms of the importance given to education, their satisfaction with the material conditions of residential centre, and their dissatisfaction concerning matters of individuality, autonomy, participation, and socialization.

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The Child Protection Systems in Denmark and Norway

Hestbæk

Skivenes

Falch‐Eriksen

et al. 2023

Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems

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This chapter expounds on Denmark and Norway’s child protection systems being developed parallel to the development of the social democratic welfare state. Both countries’ child protection systems have family-service-oriented systems that are centered around children’s rights and needs. In line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, European Council and Court of Human Rights, the basic principle of child protection systems consists of birth parents raising children or state intervention if risks are apparent. Out-of-home care will be taken if in-home services are inappropriate. Additionally, Denmark and Norway’s assessment of children’s welfare range between material well-being, health, safety, education, behaviour, risks, housing, and environment.

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The Rights of Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

The Subjective Well-Being of Portuguese Children in Foster Care, Residential Care and Children Living with their Families: Challenges and Implications for a Child Care System Still Focused on Institutionalization

The Subjective Well-Being of Portuguese Children in Foster Care, Residential Care and Children Living with their Families: Challenges and Implications for a Child Care System Still Focused on Institutionalization

Young Teenagers’ Views Regarding Residential Care in Portugal and Spain: A Qualitative Study

The Child Protection Systems in Denmark and Norway

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