Syftet med studien har varit att öka kunskapen om biologiska barns perspektiv på konflikter och konflikthantering samt att undersöka rollens betydelse för konflikter i och med ett familjehemsuppdrag. Behovet av studien baserades på att konflikter mellan biologiska barn och familjehemsplacerade barn är en vanlig orsak till sammanbrott. Uppsatsen har en kvalitativ ansats som utgått från semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta respondenter i åldrarna 18-28 år. Respondenterna delar den gemensamma erfarenheten om vad det innebär att vara biologiskt barn i ett familjehem. Studien har sin teoretiska utgångspunkt i ett barndomssociologiskt perspektiv och resultatet tolkades tematiskt och analyserades sedan med hjälp av konflikt-och konflikthanteringsperspektiv samt rollteori. Resultatet visar att de företeelser och situationer biologiska barn behöver förhålla sig till inom ramen för familjehemsuppdraget innefattar system-, mellanmänskliga-och individuella konflikter, där individuella konflikter visat sig mest framträdande i form av ambivalenta känslor och samvetskval. Studien visar också att biologiska barn hanterar konflikter på olika sätt. De synliga hanteringsstilarna är undvikande, anpassande, kompromissande och samarbetande, där undvikande och anpassande visat sig mest framträdande. Resultatet visar vidare att biologiska barn intar olika roller i familjehemsuppdraget som innefattas av ansvar och deltagande på olika sätt, vilket kan resultera i olika individuella konflikter. Respondenterna i studien berättar också att antingen mer stöd från familjen eller stöd utifrån hade gynnat deras upplevelse av familjehemsuppdraget. / The purpose of the study has been to increase the knowledge about biological children's perspective on conflicts and conflict management, as well as to study the importance of the role of conflicts in foster families. The need for the study was based on the fact that conflicts between biological children and foster children are a common cause of cancelation of fostering in foster families. The essay has a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews with eight respondents aged 18-28. Respondents share the common experience about what it means to be a biological child in a foster family. The study has its theoretical point of view in a childhood sociological perspective and the result was interpreted thematically and then analyzed using conflict and conflict management perspectives as well as role theory. The results show that the phenomena and situations thatbiological children need to relate to within the context of being part of a foster family include systemic, interpersonal and individual conflicts, whereas individual conflicts have been shown to be most prominent in terms of ambivalent feelings and compunction. The study also shows that biological children handle conflicts in different ways. The visible management styles are avoiding, adaptive, compromising and collaborative, where avoiding and adapting proved most prominent. The result further shows thatbiological children occupy different roles in the foster family, which is comprised of responsibility and participation in different ways, which can result in different individual conflicts. The respondents in the study also says that either more support from the family or support from outside would have benefited their experience of being a foster family.

Föreliggande studie behandlar familjehemsvård och berör vuxna personers erfarenheter av att växa upp i ett hem som tagit emot familjehemsplacerade barn. Studien belyser de biologiska barnens delaktighet i vården, engagemang hos deras föräldrar samt svårigheter för barnen i familjehemsvården med fokus på konsekvenser barnen fått senare i livet. Studien är en intervjuundersökning med kvalitativ metod. Totalt har sex intervjuer utförts, tre med familjehemsföräldrar och tre med deras biologiska barn. Den teoretiska förankringen utgörs av KASAM samt generell- och socialekologisk systemteori. De biologiska barn som deltagit i studien anser att de har varit delaktiga i familjehemsvården, dock har de inte varit delaktiga i beslutet om att bli familjehem. Vidare framkommer att föräldrarna har varit engagerade i barnen och att engagemanget inte har påverkats av familjehemsvården. Trots detta framkommer vissa svårigheter, som beskrivs vara exempelvis konflikter mellan de biologiska och de placerade barnen samt en oro för de biologiska barnens föräldrar. Det går att uttyda att barnen blivit påverkade även i vuxen ålder av familjehemsvården, mestadels positivt. Tidigare forskning har inte uppmärksammat området utan mestadels genomfört studier som belyser effekter för biologiska barn i aktiv familjehemsvård. Således har resultat framkommit i tidigare forskning som motsätter sig flera av slutsatserna i vår studie.

Syftet med studien var att åskådliggöra vilka konsekvenser uppdraget som familjehem kan få för de biologiska barnen när det sker förändringar i syskonskaran. Vi fann flera motsägelser i de biologiska barnens berättelser vilket vi tolkar som att uppdraget är komplext. Förändringen i syskonskaran upplevs delvis som utmanande. En av utmaningarna för våra respondenter har varit att de ska agera utifrån en ny roll vilket är en process som har tagit olika lång tid att hantera. Majoriteten av våra respondenter pratar positivt om sin förändrade situation och uppdraget i sin helhet. De menar att det ökade ansvaret som uppdraget inneburit gjort att de fått en annan roll i familjen som bidragit till att de upplever sig mer tagna på allvar. Den nya rollen har visat sig innebära en större frihet men också givit dem nya möjligheter. Förändringen har likväl väckt ett behov av att bibehålla en viss struktur inom familjen och att ibland få möjlighet att få återgå till det som familjen gjorde innan uppdraget påbörjades. Flera av våra respondenter uttrycker en önskan om en tillflyktsort där de får tillfälle att vara som “vanligt”, vilket vi tolkat som innan de fått en ny position i syskonskaran. Studiens resultat pekar på att uppdraget är komplext. Konsekvensen av att få en ny position i syskonskaran upplevs delvis som utmanande och delvis som en möjlighet. Vi har funniten paradox; att de biologiska barnen å ena sidan finner uppdraget och de nya förväntningar som kommer med den nya syskonpositionen som befriande och å andra sidan uttrycker de ett behov av att låta allt vara som vanligt.       Studien har genomförts med nio respondenter genom både kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer via en intervjuguide och strukturerade intervjuer i enkätform. För att förstå det empiriska materialet har det analyserats med hjälp av flera teoretiska begrepp från systemteorin samt en sociologisk rollteori. Vi har också valt att relatera empirin till den tidigare forskning som gjorts i ämnet. Utgångspunkten i studien har varit att placeringen i syskonskaran spelar roll då det finns olika förväntningar på de olika rollerna. Föreställningen om att ens position i syskonskaran påverkar en individ gör det intressant att lyfta de biologiska barnen i familjehem för att förstå viktiga aspekter av att agera syskon och samtidigt ändra den position som man är van vid. Studien syftade till att klargöra hur de biologiska barnen upplevde den förändring i syskonskaran som uppdraget innebar. / The purpose of the study was to illustrate the consequences of the family home for the biological children when there are changes in the siblingship. We found several contradictions in the children's stories, which we interpret as the mission is complex. The change in the siblingship is partly experienced as challenging. One of the challenges for our respondents has been that they act on a new role, which is a process that has taken a long time to handle. The majority of our respondents speak positively about their changed situation and the assignment as a whole. They believe that the increased responsibility that the assignment meant meant that they had a different role in the family that helped them feel more seriously taken. The new role has proved to mean greater freedom, but also given them new opportunities. However, the change has aroused the need to maintain a certain structure within the family and sometimes to get back to what the family did before the mission began. Several of our respondents express a wish for a place of refuge where they have the opportunity to be "common", which we interpreted as before they got a new position in the siblings. The study results indicate that the assignment is complex. The consequence of getting a new position in the siblingship is partly experienced as challenging and partly as an opportunity. Paradoxically, we have found that the biological children, on the one hand, find the mission and the new expectations that come with the new sibling position as liberation, and on the other hand they express a need to let everything be as usual.      The study has been conducted with nine respondents through both qualitative semistructured interviews via an interview guide and structured interviews in questionnaire. To understand the empirical material, it has been analyzed using several theoretical concepts from system theory and a sociological role theory. We have also chosen to relate empirin to the previous research done on the subject. The starting point of the study has been that the position in the siblings carries a role as there are different expectations of the different roles. The idea that one's position in sibling carries an individual affects an individual makes it interesting to raise the children in family homes to understand important aspects of acting siblings while changing the position that is used to. The study aimed at clarifying how the biological children experienced the change in the siblingship that the mission meant.

Background: Infertility affects both men and women globally and can be caused by several factors. The couple must have tried for at least a year before the diagnosis of infertility can. The nurse's knowledge of infertility plays a role in the patient's care experience. Orem's self-care theory can be used as a tool for the nurse in the meeting with infertile patients.Purpose: To compile and describe women's and men's experiences of living with infertility.Method: Literature study with descriptive design and thematic analysis method based on compilation of 15 qualitative articles.Main results: Participants experienced deficiencies in care related to treatment and communication. Other experiences such as infertility as a result of the result was that several of the participants experienced a mental impact due to family and outsiders which in some led to mental illness. In order to be able to handle the consequences of involuntary childlessness and its treatment processes, coping strategies have also been called coping strategies, and support from family and as a healthcare professional has been a factor.Conclusion: With the help of competence development, the nurse can contribute to a better care experience for women and men with infertility. The nurse can also contribute to good nursing, by applying self-care and management strategies that help patients. Women and men with infertility can then experience the care as safe and understanding and offer advice on handling challenging situations in everyday life.

The study aims to understand foster care secretary’s reasoning concerning biological children in foster cares. Previous research shows that biological children are a vulnerable group. But do their voices get heard? To find out how the foster care secretary reasoning about biological children of foster cares, I have interviewed four randomly municipalities in Sweden. The study is qualitative and based on a development ecological system theoretical perspective. The result shows that biological children’s right is focused and that the secretary’s ambition is to talk with the biological children before and under the foster care period. Before the family becomes a foster care they have to undergo extensive training to learn and feel ready for the new life situation.

The aim of the study was to understand how the family home secretary reasons and thinks and how they express themselves in their actions towards the family home’s biological children. The method used is qualitative semi-structured interviews, involving six family home secretaries from four different municipalities. The results were analyzed with the help of two theories – the theory of grassroots bureaucracy and the sociology of childhood theory. From the collective views of all informants, the biological children’s attitude towards the family home mandate is considered important. However, participation from the biological children is limited. Education and guidance is directed solely towards the family home parents, without any active involvement from the biological children in these efforts. Some of the informants stress that they as professionals must be better at paying attention to the biological children than what prevails today. The collective results show that family home parents are expected to take great responsibility for their biological children as well as their participation and well-being within the family home mandate.

The aim of the study was to gain knowledge about what role the foster carers’ biological children play in foster family care and also gain a deeper understanding of the biological children´s significance in a foster family care arrangement. The aim of the study has been conducted through the perspective of the Social services. The data collection consists of eight individual qualitative and semi-structured interviews with social workers who are currently working with foster families there biological children are living at home. The new childhood sociology and the concept of participation serve as the base of the theoretical framework and have been applied to the analysis of this study. The study shows that the respondents have a positive attitude towards the biological children´s presence in the foster families. They value the biological children´s function in the families as important and should thus not be forgotten. At the same time, there are no clear guidelines for how the social worker should work with foster carers’ biological children. The contact between the social worker and the biological children mostly goes through the children’s parents. The role of the biological children is not always clearly defined in the foster family care arrangement and their involvement can be perceived as insignificant. Furthermore the respondents terminates that no special support designed for biological children in foster families exists. Several respondents also reflect upon that they want to avoid burdening the biological children with responsibility that is not theirs to bear. The role of the biological children in the foster family care and their significance in the foster family care arrangement concludes therefore acknowledged by the social worker but not always recognized.

The aim of this study is to understand from a professional perspective the importance of the biological children’s participation in the family home process and how family home social workers use their room for maneuver to involve the biological children in the family home process. The method used to answer the aim and the research questions was semi-structured interviews with seven women that work as family home social workers and the empirical material was analyzed through a thematic analysis. The theoretical framework we used to analyze the results was Lipsky's theory of Street-level bureaucracy and discretion. The main findings of this study were that family home social workers think that the participation of biological children is important both for the child's own wellbeing, for the whole family's dynamics and for the outcome of a family home placement. The most common methods used by family home social workers to involve biological children are relationship building and different types of conversations depending on the children's age and maturity. The study showsin the family home investigation, there are formalized guidelines that the family home social workers work according to but there are no general guidelines in the work with biological children in the further family home placement. That results in a discretion for the family home social workers. The study shows opportunities for improvement in making the biological children more involved in the family home process and that the biological children's participation is important for the work of family home social workers. Our results both confirm and contrast previous international and national research presented in the study.

Denna kvalitativa intervjustudie syftar till att undersöka vuxna biologiska barns erfarenheter av att vara familjehem och hur familjehemsplaceringarna har påverkat de biologiska barnen. Studien undersöker om den psykosociala utvecklingen har påverkat de biologiska barnen, hur erfarenheterna av att växa upp som biologiskt barn i familjehem har påverkat de vuxna individernas nuvarande livssituation och hur de biologiska barnen upplevde sin delaktighet i beslut gällande familjehemsplaceringar. Studien genomfördes genom semi-strukturerade intervjuer där sju intervjupersoner mellan 19–44 år som hade vuxit upp som biologiskt barn i familjehem fick besvara frågor om deras upplevelser av olika områden av deras uppväxt i familjehem. Tematisk analys användes som analysmetod i studien.Resultatet av intervjuerna visar på att biologiska barn som växer upp i familjehem påverkas i olika grad av de barn som blir familjehemsplacerade hos dem. En del av intervjupersonerna nämner känslor av att hamna i skymundan, då de placerade barnen prioriterades när det gäller uppmärksamheten av vårdnadshavarna. Även skolgången påverkades negativt för en del av intervjupersonerna där dålig sömn var en avgörande faktor för de biologiska barnen, då sömnen gjorde att de presterade sämre i skolan. Även bortprioritering av egna skoluppgifter på grund av de placerade barnens behov att få hjälp i skolan påverkade de biologiska barnens skolgång åt det sämre då de inte fick tillräckligt med tid åt egna uppgifter. Intervjupersonerna nämner däremot hur de blivit mer förstående för när individer har det jobbigt och har enklare att finnas där för andra, detta på grund av uppväxten i familjehem. Majoriteten av intervjupersonerna uppger att de är positivt inställda till familjehem, men är däremot inte villiga att själva bli det som vuxna. / This qualitative interview study aims to investigate adults' biological children's experiences of being in a family home and how the family home placements have affected the biological children. The study examines whether the psychosocial development has affected the biological children, how the experiences of growing up as biological children in family homes have affected the adult’s current life situation and how the biological children experienced their participation in decisions regarding family home placements. The study was conducted through semi-structured interviews where seven interviewees between the ages of 19–44 who had grown up as biological children in family homes answered questions about their experiences of various areas of their upbringing in family homes. Thematic analysis was the chosen analysis method in the study. The results of the interviews show that biological children who grow up in family homes are affected to varying degrees by the children who are placed in family homes with them. Some of the participants mention experiences of being overlooked, when the children placed in family homes was prioritized the guardian’s attention. The education was also negatively affected for some of the interviewees, where poor sleep was a decisive factor for the biological children, as sleep made them perform worse at school. De-prioritization of own school tasks due to the placed children's need for help at school also affected the biological children's education for the worse as they did not get enough time for their own tasks. The participants, on the other hand, mention how they have become more aware when individuals are having a hard time and find it easier to be there for others, this due to growing up in a family home. Most of the interviewee’s state that they have a positive attitude to family homes, but are, on the other hand, not willing to become one themselves as adults.

De flesta barn som blir placerade utanför det egna hemmet lever i familjehem, varav många familjehemsföräldrar även har egna biologiska barn. Dessa barn osynliggörs av socialtjänsten, trots den vikt de tillskrivs i fostringsprocessen av ett placerat barn. Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka hur tidigare forskning har uppmärksammat familjehemsföräldrars biologiska barns uppväxt och på vilket sätt. Utifrån en systematisk, integrativ litteraturstudie har 15 artiklar valts ut och redogörs för i tematisk struktur varpå en analys har genomförts med hjälp av barndomssociologin som teoretisk ansats. Resultatet konstaterar att familjehemsföräldrars biologiska barn har en viktig roll i familjehemmet och är i många fall aktiva i behandlandet av det placerade barnet. Socialtjänsten bör förbereda familjehemsföräldrar och deras biologiska barn för de utmaningar, känslor och tankar biologiska barn kan erhålla när de agerar familjehem. / Most children that are placed in care are living in foster homes where many of the foster parents also have their own biological children. These biological children are found invisible by social services. The purpose of our study was to investigate how and to what extent previous research has drawn attention to foster carers own children. Based on a systematic, integrative literature study, 15 articles have been selected. We have analyzed these articles within the theoretical frame of childhood sociology. The results, states that the biological children have an important role in the foster care process and in the treatment process of the child being placed. The social services should prepare both parents and their children in the foster family for the challenges, feelings and thoughts that the biological children may possibly experience in the foster home care.