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Adoption - utifrån föräldraperspektiv : adoptivföräldrars upplevelser av stöd och hjälp innan och efter en adoption

Hagnäs, Anneli and Hellman, Katarina (2003)
School of Social Work
Abstract
Based on the debate in the media following the SOU (2003:49)-reports different suggestions to strengthen the childs role in the adoption process, we started considering the adoptive parents reactions to all this. Has anyone asked them? What support would they want? The objective of our paper was to present the result of a number of interviews with adoptive parents regarding some of the questions from the SOU (2003:49)-report. We wanted to find out how they experienced the support and help they had received in relation to the adoption process they had just been through. We also wished to know what information they had received with regard to support available from the community and to where they could turn if problems arose. Furthermore, we... (More)
Based on the debate in the media following the SOU (2003:49)-reports different suggestions to strengthen the childs role in the adoption process, we started considering the adoptive parents reactions to all this. Has anyone asked them? What support would they want? The objective of our paper was to present the result of a number of interviews with adoptive parents regarding some of the questions from the SOU (2003:49)-report. We wanted to find out how they experienced the support and help they had received in relation to the adoption process they had just been through. We also wished to know what information they had received with regard to support available from the community and to where they could turn if problems arose. Furthermore, we wanted to find out if they felt that the officials they met were competent with regard to questions dealing with adoptions and the adoption process. Our survey showed that there were no great conflicts between some of the suggestions presented in the SOU (203:49)-report and the parents reactions to it. There is, whilst keeping the childs best interests in sight, still much to be done from the side of the community to support and help adoptive parents. (Less)
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author
Hagnäs, Anneli and Hellman, Katarina
supervisor
organization
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
language
Swedish
id
1358911
date added to LUP
2004-11-08 00:00:00
date last changed
2004-11-08 00:00:00
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  abstract     = {{Based on the debate in the media following the SOU (2003:49)-reports different suggestions to strengthen the childs role in the adoption process, we started considering the adoptive parents reactions to all this. Has anyone asked them? What support would they want? The objective of our paper was to present the result of a number of interviews with adoptive parents regarding some of the questions from the SOU (2003:49)-report. We wanted to find out how they experienced the support and help they had received in relation to the adoption process they had just been through. We also wished to know what information they had received with regard to support available from the community and to where they could turn if problems arose. Furthermore, we wanted to find out if they felt that the officials they met were competent with regard to questions dealing with adoptions and the adoption process. Our survey showed that there were no great conflicts between some of the suggestions presented in the SOU (203:49)-report and the parents reactions to it. There is, whilst keeping the childs best interests in sight, still much to be done from the side of the community to support and help adoptive parents.}},
  author       = {{Hagnäs, Anneli and Hellman, Katarina}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Adoption - utifrån föräldraperspektiv : adoptivföräldrars upplevelser av stöd och hjälp innan och efter en adoption}},
  year         = {{2003}},
}