The Consciousness among Biological Children of Foster Carers in Foster Families

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  • YAMAMOTO Machiko
    日本女子大学大学院人間社会研究科博士後期課程:独立行政法人日本学術振興会

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  • 里親家庭における里親の実子の意識
  • サトオヤ カテイ ニ オケル サトオヤ ノ ジッシ ノ イシキ

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This paper focuses on foster carers' biological children, an under-researched topic in Japan. The purpose of this paper is to explore the consciousness of the biological children of foster carers, who live alongside their birth parents as well as the foster children placed in the family. The author interviewed eleven individuals who had grown up as the biological children in foster families, and analyzed these results with the Modified Grounded Theory Approach. Although the biological children are intensely affected by the various experiences in the foster home, biological children tend to be overlooked. Meanwhile, it has emerged that there is a strong tendency for biological children to be overlooked in foster care. The author suggests that foster parents' biological children live with a variety of internal conflicts having to do not only with the home, but also with their lives in school and the broader community.

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