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Romania: new hope
- Author:
- LOWE Marion
- Journal article citation:
- Foster Care, 71, September 1992, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Fostering Network
Reports on some child care initiatives in Romania.
Romania - moving towards family based care
- Author:
- LOWE Marion
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 17(1), Spring 1993, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes the development of a model foster care programme in Romania by the Romanian Orphanage Trust in partnership with the Romanian government.
Developing alternatives to residential care in Romania
- Authors:
- DICKENS Jonathan, WATTS Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 20(3), Autumn 1996, pp.8-13.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Compared to Western Europe, Romania has a very high proportion of children in residential care. Most of these children live in the type of large institutions, erroneously labelled as 'orphanages', which featured so prominently in Western media coverage of the country immediately after the 1989 overthrow of President Ceausescu. The authors talk about work they have been doing with the Romanian Orphanage Trust since October 1994.
Who do they think they are: making sense of self in residential care, foster care, and adoption
- Authors:
- NEAGU Mariela, SEBBA Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 105, 2019, p.104449.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article explores how the type of placement in children's social care influences identity formation and contact with the birth family. It draws on 40 life history interviews with Romanian-born, care experienced young people who entered adulthood from different types of placement: 16 from residential care, eight from foster care, seven from domestic adoption and nine from intercountry adoption. The article contributes to an understanding of how residential care, foster care, domestic adoption and intercountry adoption affect identity formation and contact with the birth family from the perspectives of those who lived them, the challenges they encountered and the strategies they adopted to make sense of who they were during adolescence and transition to adulthood. The findings suggest that all the research participants had met or wanted to meet their birth families, and that stigmatisation occurred in all types of placement. The type of placement they were in influenced the support or the challenges they faced when they wanted to gain knowledge of their birth families and the circumstances in which they met their birth family. In some cases, their intention to search for the birth family led to tensions or conflict between them and their adoptive or foster carers. However, this study suggests that knowledge of, and contact with their birth family did not modify the quality of the children's relationship with them (foster carers or adoptive parents). It also suggests that when raised by carers other than their birth parents, children allocate parental roles to carers or other significant adults and that challenges related to identity formation in adolescence differ between residential care, foster care and adoption. (Edited publisher abstract)
Attitudes to child care reform in Romania: findings from a survey of Romanian social workers
- Authors:
- DICKENS Jonathan, SERGHI Catalin
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 3(3), November 2000, pp.247-260.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper presents the findings of a survey of Romanian social workers' attitudes towards two keys aspects of a child and family social work in their country: namely, the development of foster care, and the regulation of inter-country adoption. Major changes to the law on these matters were introduced in Romania in 1997, and the paper links the research findings with discussion of the progress, and difficulties, of putting the new legislation into practice. The research highlights the wide range of opinions and beliefs within the social services workforce in Romania, and draws attention to the complex interaction of professional education, workplace culture, and government policy in shaping those attitudes. The conclusion offers some thoughts on ways forward for child care policy, practice, research, and training in Romania.
Fostering international relations
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.12.98, 1998, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines a new European project, the Social Exchange Programme in Romania, that allows social workers to carry out work experience on the continent, and talks to two social workers who are working with Romanian children in care.