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Birth family from foster child’s perspective

The general goal of this presentation is defined as getting to know and understand foster children’s perspective of biological family. In other words, the aim of this research is to get to know and understand perspective and experience about biological family of foster children, biological children of foster parents, as well as the adults who were in a foster care earlier in life. More precisely, we wanted to get to know experiences and understanding the reasons for separation from family of birth and being accommodated in the foster family from the users (child’s) point of view as well as child perspective of their family of birth. Key participants of research are children and adolescents (foster children and biological children of foster parents aged 10 to 12 and 15 to 17, children/young people that were placed in an institution after having spent time in a foster home aged 10 to 12 and 15 to 17) as well as adults who were in the foster care as children. Overall number of participants in the study is 50. It is a heterogeneous group of participants, who posses a lot of knowledge about the research problem and they can be evaluated as a relevant sample (Patton, 2002). Research was carried out on the principles of qualitative approach and participatory research. Key method of data collecting was semi-structured interview. In conclusion, some recommendations related to raising the level of quality of foster care in Croatia are given.

foster care; child perspective; biological family; Croatian experiences

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