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9780415358125

The Lives of Foster Carers: Private Sacrifices, Public Restrictions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415358125

  • ISBN10:

    0415358124

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2006-05-30
  • Publisher: Routledge

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There are approximately 37,000 foster families currently living in the UK, yet while there has been a substantial amount of social research about fostered children, little is known about the adults who look after them. By focusing on the carer, not the child or the social worker,The Lives of Foster Carersoffers the reader a new perspective on foster care. It explores the contradictions, conflicts and ambiguities faced by foster carers every day and looks at how public bureaucracy and private family life intertwine. The issues it discusses include: a history of the foster care service professionalizing foster care and the shift away from foster parenting public and private domains in foster care motivations and roles of foster carers how foster carers perceive themselves and their foster children Based on a wide range of literature and in-depth interviews with 46 foster carers, this book provides valuable insight into the concerns, processesand experiences of foster carers. Jargon free and accessible, it will appeal to foster carers, practitioners, students and academics in social care, youth work and childcare as well as policy makers in children's services.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(2)
1 What do we know about foster carers? The applied social research 3(15)
2 Towards a theorising of foster care 18(18)
3 Dealing with dilemmas: private and personal 36(20)
4 How foster carers position themselves 56(19)
5 Having a presence through children 75(21)
6 Conclusion 96(16)
Appendix A Pen pictures of the foster carers 112(6)
Appendix B Vignettes 118(3)
Notes 121(3)
Bibliography 124(10)
Index 134

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