Mariela Neagu, PhD student, REES Centre, Dept. of Education, University of Oxford, United Kingdom This doctoral research is a qualitative study which looks at the life trajectories of 39 Romanian care leavers and adoptees in their 20s and it seeks to explore their experiences in different types of placement (foster care, residential and adoption) as they perceived them. During […]
Anna-Marie Herdtle, PhD student, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg The aim of this presentation is to reconstruct how young people in foster care experience continuities and/or disruptions during their transitions to adulthood. Combining an understanding of identity as an ongoing process aiming at the reconciliation between inner and outer exigencies which can be quite contradictory (cf. Keupp et al. 1999) […]
Dorijn Wubs, PhD student, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Hans Grietens, Researcher University of Groningen, the Netherlands Laura Batstra, Researcher, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Although the consequences for all victims of child sexual abuse are serious, when a child is abused by mother figure, the abuse is considered to be especially harmful. Yet, maternal sexual abuse remains a taboo, as females are often not […]
Johan Vanderfaeillie, Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Ann Clé, Researcher, Vijre Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Frank Van Holen, Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium In Flanders, a family foster care placement is the option of choice for children in need of out-of-home care. For both birth parents and children, placing a child in out-of-home care is a far reaching decision. However, little is known about how children themselves live […]