The Discourse on the "Dangerous Child Welfare Parent"-How Contact with Parents Is Constructed as a Risk for Children Under Public Care in Norway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5934461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilde Anette Aamodt (0000-0003-1933-2980, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University), Marianne Buen Sommerfeldt (0000-0002-8463-4312, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 173 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci14030173 |
| OpenAlex | W4408405022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article discusses contact and interaction between children, siblings and parents after a care order. We have collected and analyzed audio recordings of discussions between child welfare employees in Norway. In these meetings, the employees discuss and decide the extent and organization of visits and contact between parents and children under public care. Visitation mainly emerges as a risk in the discussions and thus as something that must be limited. This article shows how this risk can be seen in the context of a political or moral discourse in which these parents are given an identity and a position as "dangerous". However, there are some exceptions. In these exceptions, parents emerge as significant and important, and contact is seen as an opportunity for the child. Here, it is the risk of not having contact that stands out
Child care · Developmental psychology · Political science · Public discourse · Welfare · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Research in Social Sciences · Social Work Education and Practice
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |