From Foster Care to Fostering Care

The Need for Community

Bibliographic Data

ID2276949
AuthorsMartha Bauman Power (Illinois State University), Brenda Krause Eheart (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Year2000
Volume41
Issue1
Pages85-102
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb02367.x
OpenAlexW2054978661
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

Using an interpretive ethnographic framework, we investigate how being in a caring community benefits foster children and their families during a time of crisis. Through (re)telling the stories of the untimely death of Carl Connor, a parent of four foster children, we examine the community of Hope Meadows as the site where the activities of caring occurred. Care as a set of relational and moral practices is presented, and we describe how care is facilitated by the purpose as well as the physical and social dimensions of Hope Meadows. The stories of Carl Connor's death provide a foundation for a gendered theory of moral community

Ethnography · Foster care · Foundation (evidence) · Political science · Public relations · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

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