Transition to adulthood from foster care in Spain: A biographical approach

Gradaílle, Rita; Montserrat, Carme; Brage, Lluís Ballester

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.04.020

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“…The relevant, empirically established links between experiences in residential care and the biographical topics central to people’s well-being, as discussed here, clearly reveal how children’s experiences of being placed in care between 1950 and 1990 can manifest later in life. This finding can also be linked to other studies with a life course perspective ( Brady and Gilligan, 2018 ; Gradaílle et al, 2018 ). This, in turn, underlines the current need to search for and find answers to critical questions about children’s residential care which do not involve putting an end to homes (as is frequently demanded), but are instead about creating ‘evidence-based’ expertise and quality criteria relating to children being in and leaving residential care ( Holden et al, 2010 ).…”

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Vulnerability and Well-Being Decades After Leaving Care

Gabriel

Keller

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2021

Front. Psychol.

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One of the most important goals of out of home placements is to reduce vulnerability and to enable well-being in the long term. This article hermeneutically reconstructs biographies decades after leaving-care to understand the impact of residential care experiences on selected dimensions of care-leavers’ well-being, that were discovered in the data material. For this article three analytic areas were selected from the core of the narratives of former care leavers: Social networks, parenthood and state interventions. The selected findings on long-term outcomes presented here are based on a qualitative research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on life trajectories after residential care (1950–1990). The authors have conducted 37 biographical narrative interviews with former children placed in residential care between 1950 and 1990 in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. The analysis of these narrative interviews was structured by the inductive procedures of Grounded Theory. Its foundation is the conceptualisation and dimensionalisation of data through inductive coding within the narratives. Research question: We mainly were interested in aspects of transitions exclusively relevant from the actors’ point of view. The objective of this paper is to learn for the future by taking biographical experiences and long-term outcome in account. As we know residential care facilities have changed in last decades, but structurally some key figures are still continuing. They still interrupt the life course two times: when you start to the live in the institution and when you leave. One main question is how young people manage to integrate residential experiences through their life course and where they keep on struggling until the end of their lives. From a life-course perspective, the impact of social service intention on individual life courses, behind sending the individuals to such facilities, are important to investigate. They implicate relevant information concerning current practice and impact of placing children in residential care. Social networks and experiences of parenthood show why we must frame and accompany transitions out of care.

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Vulnerability and Well-Being Decades After Leaving Care

Gabriel

Keller

Bombach³

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…While relationships with family members are not unusual, there tends to be little actual family support (Marion & Paulsen, 2019). Most family relationships remain conflictual or are accompanied by ongoing resentments (Collins et al, 2008;Gradaílle et al, 2018;Mendes et al, 2012). In some cases, the care leavers are themselves required to support family members (Sulimani-Aidan & Melkman, 2018).…”

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“…Care leavers themselves consider their ability to live independently and be self-reliant a key success factor in the status passage of leaving care (Sulimani-Aidan, 2018;Driscoll, 2013). It has been argued that this self-image of being independent and self-reliant may belong to a pattern of "pseudo-independence" that youth from care use to avoid future attachments and to mask their social isolation (Mann-Feder, 2019, p. 15), yet living alone itself may engender feelings of loneliness and social isolation (Gradaílle et al, 2018;Sulimani-Aidan & Melkman, 2018). Internationally, there are differing degrees of professional support for the time after care.…”

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“…Accordingly, during the status passage of leaving care, the "quest for social and emotional care" proves to be a central principle guiding care leavers' actions (Groinig & Sting, 2019, p. 44). Numerous international studies have shown that, in this situation, the family increasingly comes to the fore again in various ways (e.g., Collins et al, 2008;Gradaílle et al, 2018;Refaeli, 2017;Theile, 2015;Wade, 2008).…”

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Care Leavers’ Perspectives on the Family in the Transition From Out-of-Home Care to Independent Living

Sting

Groinig

2020

IJCYFS

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Findings from youth research have shown that, due to the development of the transitional phase of “emerging adulthood”, the family has become increasingly significant for young adults as a source of support and as a safety net. In contrast, care leavers are confronted with a relatively abrupt transition to independent living. However, international studies have shown that the family also plays a significant role during the status passage of leaving care — as an arena of concrete social relationships, as a normative model and ideal, as a biographical experience and memory, as a connection to family traditions and practices, and as an important contextual factor for resilience and identity formation. The first section of this paper describes the various links between care leavers and their families based on a literature review. In the second section, the biographical relevance of the family is highlighted based on the example of a qualitative interview study about the educational pathways of 20- to 27-year-old care leavers. The study shows the various influences of family links on the educational careers of young people during and after out-of-home care. From the findings, we derive some consequences for professional work with families in out-of-home care and for professional support and guidance during the status passage of leaving care.

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“…También es posible que la prudencia y el temor de profesionales y centros a que las familias de origen vivan la parentalidad profesional como un intento de usurpar su figura y menoscabar su vínculo con el niño, haya generado una cierta autocensura a la hora de asumir funciones parentales (Holmes et al, 2018). La familia de origen será siempre un referente fundamental para los niños y adolescentes (Gradaílle, Montserrat, & Ballester, 2018); pero estamos en una sociedad en la que cada día se acepta más la aloparentalidad (Holmes et al, 2018). Los niños necesitan de una figura parental presente que atienda sus necesidades y guie sus aprendizajes.…”

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Parentalidad profesional en el acogimiento institucional: propuesta para mejorar la atención a los niños acogidos en centros de protección

Roca

2019

Ped Soc. Rev Int

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Transition to adulthood from foster care in Spain: A biographical approach

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

Vulnerability and Well-Being Decades After Leaving Care

Vulnerability and Well-Being Decades After Leaving Care

Care Leavers’ Perspectives on the Family in the Transition From Out-of-Home Care to Independent Living

Parentalidad profesional en el acogimiento institucional: propuesta para mejorar la atención a los niños acogidos en centros de protección

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