Abstract The essay aims to investigate what was considered a good home during welfare Sweden, starting fromKarlstad's child care activities concerning foster homes and foster children 1930–1943. As well asexamining the discourses and practices the child welfare board uses in their inspections of foster homes.The study is qualitative with quantitative elements in the scope of the material and the appendices foundafter the list of sources and literature. Furthermore, the essay answers questions about how the good homewas defined by the child care board? Who applied to become foster parents and how were the homesdescribed in the applications? On what grounds were the decisions about foster care placements made?Furthermore, the source material has been analyzed with Helena Bergman's welfare state theory, as wellas Ann-Sofie Bergman's interpretation of practice and discourse as theory. The background to the studylies in the construction of public housing which was current during the 1930s. Furthermore, how normsand ideals governed the child care board's work regarding foster home placements in the years 1930 –1943. The analysis of the source material shows how the child care board issued various financial grantsto foster homes as well as child care allowances. In inspections that were carried out, the child care boardchecked the suitability of the home in terms of how the foster family lived, whether the home was cleanand tidy, and whether the foster child managed his schooling and any work duties. In the aspect ofsuitability, the child care board considered that old or sick foster parents were not suitable. Based on thesource material about registered foster homes, the demands on children that foster parents had can be seen,which could vary in age and gender. A discernible pattern is that all foster parents wanted foster childrenwho were mostly boys in their early teens, who could help work.In conclusion, some children were in demand and some children were not, foster parents above all wantedhealthy and easy-to-raise children. The Child Care Board worked to counteract overcrowding and promotehealth in foster homes. An ideal foster home was a foster home in the countryside, where the foster childrenhad access to fresh air and light. During the first half of the 20th century, the Child Welfare Boardincreasingly became a political arena, where social policy reforms were applied to a greater extent, in theform of social reforms such as grants and action for the child's right to care. However, it was delicateregarding what was actually in the best interest of the child and the best of society, the ideal of childhoodsaid that the child should have caring parents and the right to play, in several foster homes foster childrenhad to act as labor for the benefit of the foster parents. Those who were considered difficult to place infoster homes, because of their origin or behavior, were sent to orphanages. Keyword: foster home, foster child, welfare, good home.

The study is about the reasons why parents ended up with the child welfare board in the city of Karlstad in 1904-1908. And about perspective of coercion and volunteering, with the focus on biological parents. The source material that has been used has been analyzed from reproductive resources social economics and ideological resources. Susanna Hedenborg’s reproduction theories have been selected to able to identify the three different resources in my essay. With the help of reproductive theories, it is possible to identify how social relations were important that economics played a role and ideological resources played a major role in terms of coercion and the voluntary aspects. My questions are how did it come about that guardian ended up with the child welfare board at the beginning of the 19th century? How common was it that parents were forced by the child welfare board to leave their children? To get a result I used a quantitative analysis of both my questions. With my empirical research I have conclude that there were various aspects that made biological parents end up in the child welfare board’s register. There were both coercive and voluntary measures to leave the children. The Child Welfare Board’s decision was usually based on the existing laws. Which of course made the video on overnight sensation. It could also be that the parents got a chance to show that they could change.

<p>Uppsatsen är en studie kring hur några lärare har valt att arbeta med barn som är placerade i familjehem. Vilka problem de här barnen befinner sig i och vad skolan bör göra för att underlätta för dem.</p>

Uppsatsen är en studie kring hur några lärare har valt att arbeta med barn som är placerade i familjehem. Vilka problem de här barnen befinner sig i och vad skolan bör göra för att underlätta för dem.

Abstrakt Studiens syfte var att studera individers upplevelser och erfarenheter av familjehemsplacering. Studiens frågeställningar: Hur beskriver individer socialtjänstens roll i samband med placeringen? Hur beskriver individer familjehemmets roll? Hur beskriver individer placeringens inverkan på levnadsvillkoren? För att besvara frågeställningarna tillämpades en kvalitativ metod där semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med fyra individer som under uppväxten varit familjehemsplacerade. Studiens resultat visar att familjehemsplacering har en positiv inverkan på individers levnadsvillkor, men att det likväl finns tillkortakommanden. Genom redan gjorda samhälleliga förändringar och med den nya lagändringen som är under övervägande, så kommer på ett tydligare sätt barn/ungdomar som är i särskilt behov av stöd att synliggöras. Studien visar att ett tydligare barnperspektiv, bredare samarbete med andra aktörer samt en mer holistisk syn på familjehemsvården kommer att stärka barnets utvecklingsmöjligheter och möjliggöra en trygg uppväxt. Analysverktygen var Bronfenbrenners utvecklingsekologiska modell samt Antonovskys KASAM. Resultatet ligger i linje med tidigare forskning. / Abstract The study aimed to examine individual’s experiences of foster home. Questions were: How does the individual describe Social Services' role in connection with the placement? How does the individual describe the role of the foster home? How does the individual describe the placements impact on the living conditions? To answer those questions a qualitative approachwas applied in which semi-structured interviews were conducted with four individual’s who in their childhood were placed in foster homes. The study shows that foster home placements has a positive impact on individuals' lives, but there are still some shortcomings. By the already-made changes in society and with the new change in legislation under consideration, will more clearly show the children/young people who are in special need of support and make them more visible. Our results shows that a clearer perspective of children, broader cooperation with other actors and a more holistic approach to foster care will enhance children's development and enable a secure childhood. Analysis tools were Bronfenbrenners developing ecological model and Antonovskys SOC. This outcome is consistent with previous research.

The purpose of this BA thesis is to study what the rules for foster children were like in Sweden during the 1920s, with a focus on the 1902 and the 1924 law, respectively. The aim of the analysis is to study the similarities and differences between the two legislations. The purpose is also to study how the rules were subsequently followed and possibly changed in practice in Sweden during the years 1920-1930, with a focus on individual cases of foster children in the city of Uppsala. A further purpose of this essay is to investigate a potential application of the theme of this essay in the history subject in school. A didactic purpose is thus to investigate the extent to which the current curriculum for upper secondary school deals with areas that concern individual history and social history. The aim of the analysis is also to both problematize and see the possibilities with an application of the essay topic in teaching. The didactic perspective aims to open for discussion about how individual history could function as arousing interest for students in history teaching. The result shows that the rules for foster children changed in Sweden during the 1920s, mainly regarding the requirement for the municipalities to introduce a child welfare board. Previously, the boards had the task of checking that the foster care was not inappropriate. With the introduction of child welfare boards also came the task of keeping notes of decisions regarding foster children. In addition, the age limit for foster children increased from seven years to 16 years. The rules were largely followed in practice for foster children. Information about the foster children became more detailed after the year 1926. The point where the legislation broke in practice was regarding notification that a foster child has been received, as the time indication changed during the archive study for most of the foster children. The didactic result shows that there are opportunities in dealing with subjects such as social history and individual history in history teaching in upper secondary school. The syllabus touch on both subjects to a high degree, mainly to draw attention to living conditions.

Denna rapport handlar om fosterbarnsvård under perioden 1926–1935, då många barn bodde i fosterhem i Sverige. Vid studiens startpunkt hade en ny lag om samhällets barnavård införts där det ingick bestämmelser om kontroll över fosterbarnens vård. Vem som helst fick inte ta hand om fosterbarn, därför skulle fosterhems och fosterföräldrars lämplighet utredas och barnens vård i hemmen kontrolleras. I rapporten ges en inblick i hur lämplighetsfrågan och fosterhemstillsynen hanterades i en lokal praktik vid barnavårdsnämnden i Växjö. Ann-Sofie Bergman är socionom och fil. mag. i historia. Detta är hennes licentiatavhandling i socialt arbete. / This study is about foster family care in Sweden during a period at the beginning of the twentieth century, when many children were placed in foster homes. Because of the law regulating society’s children care (lag om samhällets barnavård) which came into force in 1926, children’s welfare boards (barnavårdsnämnder) were raised in the municipalities of Sweden. These boards got the responsibility for the supervising of foster care and for placing children with suitable foster parents. Then what was meant by foster parents being suitable? In this study the children’s welfare boards documented suitability tests of foster parents and foster homes are being analysed in a local context. It’s primarily language and argumentation which are being focused upon in this analysis. The local study has been located to Växjö during the period of 1926 to 1935. The result of the study shows that the foster children often were placed in foster homes in the local surroundings. The children’s welfare board preferred to place children with married couples who were living in the countryside without children of their own. Furthermore it was considered necessary that there was a woman in the foster home who took care of the children and the home. The foster parents’ care of the children was inspected by the board. How the foster parents took care of the children was essential, and the material conditions were important in this context, but also feelings and the relationship between the children and the adults. Problems in the foster homes which drew the attention of the board could be lack of good enough material conditions, illness or unsuitable lodgers. But the opinions about what was proper or improper could differ – children, parents and foster parents sometimes thought differently about this than the board did. When deciding upon this issue there could be negotiations or disputes taking place between the involved. Conclusively, this study has pointed out the significance of economy at the suitability tests carried out on the foster homes. If the foster parents did not receive any economic compensation for the foster child, the demands on the suitability of a foster home could be lower.

<p>The purpose of this study is to highlight the situation for youths leaving foster care and entering adult life. The study examines the services provided by the social service in the Stockholm area when a youth is leaving foster care, and if a recent change in the legislation has had any impact on the operating procedures of the social service. The study includes interviews with youths who recently left foster care, as well as information collected from social service offices through a survey, supplemented by interviews with practicing social workers. All the assembled data have been analyzed using Ecological Systems theory with focus on the child perspective and the term significant others. The study shows that the respondent youth have trouble identifying the formal ending with social services, as well as the support they received or were offered. As assembled from the survey, the few supporting services that are being arranged in connection with leaving care are similar between different social service offices. The general opinion is that they offer the required extra support that the new legislation aims to strengthen. The majority of the social service offices has therefore not changed their existing leaving care procedures. In this process, a lot of responsibility tends to be delegated to the foster homes, and due to insufficient resources social workers feel inadequate in those cases were the youth’s need for help is not met by the former foster home.</p>

<p>Socialtjänsten har ett ansvar för att se till att familjehemsplacerade barn får en trygg och bra uppväxt. Syftet med uppsatsen är att skapa en förståelse och en ökad kunskap kring hur väl socialtjänsten tar det ansvaret. Enligt tidigare forskning finns en del brister i familjehemsvår-den.</p><p>För att ge en bild av socialtjänstens uppföljningsarbete med familjehemsplacerade barn har jag använt en kvalitativ intervjumetod och intervjuat familjehemsföräldrar och social-sekreterare kring tolv familjehemsplacerade barn.</p><p>Några resultat är att socialtjänsten vanligtvis föjer upp placeringarna två gånger om året med hembesök där man pratar med barnet, att man i liten utsträckning använder någon strukturerad metod vid uppföljningen, att socialtjänsten oftast arbetar aktivt med barnets kontakt med de biologiska föräldrarna samt att socialtjänsten oftast har upprättat vårdplaner kring barnen. Det finns många faktorer som påverkar arbetet. Några av dem är barnets behov, tilltro till familje-hemmet, intressekonflikter, socialtjänstens organisation, ekonomiska resurser och personliga egenskaper hos socialsekreterarna.</p><p>Resultaten har jämförts med tidigare forskning och analyserats utifrån systemteori och rollteo-ri. En slutsats är att det trots förändringar i lagstiftningen, där barnperspektivet blivit starkare, är svårt att förändra socialtjänstsystemet och anta en stark roll som barnets företrädare.</p>

<p>Denna studie är en forskningsöversikt med syfte att undersöka hur barnets bästa i form av identitetsskapande, familjerelationer och etnicitet tillgodoses vid familjehemsplacering i släktinghem. Frågeställningar för att besvara syftet var; vad visar forskningen beträffande barns behov av stabilitet i relationer och identitetsutveckling vid släktingplacering? Utifrån detta tittar vi även på de etniska aspekterna, eftersom lagen är tydlig med att barn med annat etniskt ursprung, helst ska placeras inom släkten. Till tidigare forskning har vi använt oss av fem forskningsöversikter skrivna inom området släktingplaceringar. Teoretiska utgångspunkter i studien är familjerelationer och identitet. Materialet till studien har samlats in främst via sökmotorer på Internet. Urvalskriterier var relationer till biologiska föräldrar, närhet till ursprungsmiljön, beskrivning av barnens situation i placeringen och etnicitet. Kravet på de studier vi undersökte, var att de skulle ha varit publicerade i någon vetenskaplig tidskrift. Urvalet, som bestod av tio studier, sammanställdes i en tabell i resultatredovisningen. Därefter delades resultatet upp i teman utifrån frågeställningar från syftet. Resultatet analyserades utifrån den tidigare forskningen och teoretiska utgångspunkter. En begränsning i studien var det knapphändiga underlaget av tidigare studier och framför allt svensk forskning om släktingplaceringar utifrån barnets behov. Denna studie visar att det är stor etnisk skillnad mellan vilka barn som placeras i släktinghem och att barn ofta mår bättre av att placeras i släktinghem, både identitetsmässigt och relationsmässigt. Det finns dock en del motsägande fakta, som menar att det ibland är sämre med släktingplaceringar, utifrån barnets behov.</p> / <p>CAN IT BE IN THE INTEREST OF CHILDREN TO BE PLACED IN KINSHIP CARE? A LITERATURE REVIEW</p><p>This study has a purpose to see how the interest in children can be provided for in terms of identity, family relations and ethnicity in kin ship care. The questions we had, to be able to answer the purpose were: What does the research show about children’s need of stability in relations and identity development in kin ship care? On the basis of this we also include the ethnic aspects because the Swedish law are very clear that children with another ethnic origin should be in kin ship care. We have used five literature reviews about the kin ship subject area in our previous research chapter. Theories used in this study were family relations and identity. The material for the study has been collected by search engines on Internet. The selection criterions were relations to biological parents, the nearness to origin environment, and description of the children’s situation in kin ship and ethnicity. The requirements of the selected studies were that they should have been published in some scientific periodical. The selections of the ten studies were compiled in a table in our result account. After that the results were divided in themes on the basis of the questions from the purpose. The results were analysed on the basis of the previous research and the theories. The limitations in this study were the briefly basis in earlier studies and in the first place the Swedish research of children’s well being in kin ship care. This study shows that it is a large ethnic difference between children in kin ship care. It also shows that children often feels better when they are placed in kin ship care, both identically and in relations. There is a contradictory fact that shows that kin ship care not are in the interest for the children and their needs.</p>