Adoption: professionellas och ideellt engagerades tankar kring samhällets beredskap för adoptivfamiljer
(2007)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The Swedish legislation (Socialtjänstlagen, SoL 5 kap 1§ 6 st.) state that the social welfare committee is particularly responsible for those children whom are in need of support and help after an adoption or custody matter has been decided. "Adoption - but at what price?" SOU 2003:49 is a state report with the purpose to investigate different aspects around international adoptions, which brings up and discusses what supports there is for adoptive families in Sweden. With this background and a special attention towards adoptive children's health conditions when arriving to their new country we decided to study the subject adoption. By interviewing different professionals and volunteers that work with adoptive families in Sweden the aim... (More)
- The Swedish legislation (Socialtjänstlagen, SoL 5 kap 1§ 6 st.) state that the social welfare committee is particularly responsible for those children whom are in need of support and help after an adoption or custody matter has been decided. "Adoption - but at what price?" SOU 2003:49 is a state report with the purpose to investigate different aspects around international adoptions, which brings up and discusses what supports there is for adoptive families in Sweden. With this background and a special attention towards adoptive children's health conditions when arriving to their new country we decided to study the subject adoption. By interviewing different professionals and volunteers that work with adoptive families in Sweden the aim with this study was to acknowledge how they look upon the support the Swedish community offers for adoptive parents and also how they consider the knowledge about adoption among those who in their line of work can meet adoptive children is. We also want to distinguish what information and preparations the soon to be adoptive parents receive around the possible health conditions and health risks that the adoptive child might have. Our study showed that the support to adoptive families from Swedish community differs significant depending on where in the country the family lives but that there is a desire for more support directed specific to adoptive families. The discussion around the knowledge about adoption among those who in their line of work can come in contact with adoptive children and their families was also being question and discussed. It was agreed upon by all the interviewed professionals and volunteers that it is very important to prepare and inform the soon to be adoptive parents about health risks and health conditions, but the information needs to be balanced right. The conclusion of this study is that there are people working towards organising the knowledge about adoption, offering support, starting different groups for adoptive families and want to extend the support to adoptive families but is a subject that is under and in need of development. (Less)
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- author
- Andersson, Lina and Nicander, Jenny
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- adoption, stöd, förberedelser, hälsotillstånd, hälsorisker, Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1317752
- date added to LUP
- 2008-12-22 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2009-01-09 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The Swedish legislation (Socialtjänstlagen, SoL 5 kap 1§ 6 st.) state that the social welfare committee is particularly responsible for those children whom are in need of support and help after an adoption or custody matter has been decided. "Adoption - but at what price?" SOU 2003:49 is a state report with the purpose to investigate different aspects around international adoptions, which brings up and discusses what supports there is for adoptive families in Sweden. With this background and a special attention towards adoptive children's health conditions when arriving to their new country we decided to study the subject adoption. By interviewing different professionals and volunteers that work with adoptive families in Sweden the aim with this study was to acknowledge how they look upon the support the Swedish community offers for adoptive parents and also how they consider the knowledge about adoption among those who in their line of work can meet adoptive children is. We also want to distinguish what information and preparations the soon to be adoptive parents receive around the possible health conditions and health risks that the adoptive child might have. Our study showed that the support to adoptive families from Swedish community differs significant depending on where in the country the family lives but that there is a desire for more support directed specific to adoptive families. The discussion around the knowledge about adoption among those who in their line of work can come in contact with adoptive children and their families was also being question and discussed. It was agreed upon by all the interviewed professionals and volunteers that it is very important to prepare and inform the soon to be adoptive parents about health risks and health conditions, but the information needs to be balanced right. The conclusion of this study is that there are people working towards organising the knowledge about adoption, offering support, starting different groups for adoptive families and want to extend the support to adoptive families but is a subject that is under and in need of development.}},
author = {{Andersson, Lina and Nicander, Jenny}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Adoption: professionellas och ideellt engagerades tankar kring samhällets beredskap för adoptivfamiljer}},
year = {{2007}},
}