Barns förhållande till föräldrar och fosterföräldrar

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Andersson, G. (1990). Children's relation to parents and foster parents. Nordisk Psykologi, 42, 59–74. For several years the question of the importance of natural parents for foster children has been highly controversial. The child's need for new psychological parents in the foster home contrasted with the importance of maintaining links with natural parents. The article deals with the sometimes incongruent relation between psychological theories, ideological positions and social work in practice. An empirical study of the relation between parents, children, and foster parents is described. A group of 0–4 year old children were observed in a children's home. Follow up studies were made after three and nine months and after five years. 19 of the 29 children had experiences from foster homes. Perception of their natural parents or their foster parents as their psychological parents is due to their early parent-child relation more than to age, extent of contact and social work decisions.

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