Study On Parenthood Between The Abandoned Children And Foster Parents From Institutional Perspective

As a supplementary to abandoned children rearing pattern,foster care family system is playing an important role in children's physical and mental growth.As foster care system is progressing,a series of problems occur,especially in parenthood,which affect the enthusiasm of foster parents and the children attach to and integrate into the foster family.This study used the new institutionalism theory as framework and case study on X district social welfare in S city;using observation,interview,documentation to study 6 foster family to discover that:1.institutional factors has dual effect on parenthood,including positive and negative effect;2.Social workers' intervention has achieved certain results,because lacking in professional skills and unsteady of social worker team,it is very difficult to ensure the effective of services;3.when problems occur in parenthood,foster parents don' t know how to deal with these problems,resulting in tension between foster children and foster parents,so training and guidance for foster parents should be reinforce.The research shows that parenthood indicates foster family system is experiencing a bottleneck period.Therefore,we hope to arouse the attention of the social welfare,to guide the foster family service reasonably and exert its maximum efficiency.In this study,only choose one welfare institution as the research object,which is not typical.In addition,data acquisition and research methods need to be improved.This study is divided into six parts;the first part includes problems introduction,research background and research significance,to point out that research problem is parenthood;the second part reviews the relevant literature on the foster family,involving disabled children,foster family care,parenthood in the family and social workers' intervention the foster family,and define core concept of parenthood;the third part is the research design,expounds the basic connotation of the new institutionalism theory,its main concepts and guidance on the selection of X district welfare center in S city as the research place,select 6 foster families,using observation,interview,documentation to practice research;the fourth part is the research findings,according to the research materials to analyze the parenthood,main problems and interventions of social workers;the fifth part is the research and analysis,discuss the influence of institutional factors on the fosterage family parenthood and institutional factors affect social workers'intervention for abandoned children in foster family,and put forward the suggestions to improve social work;the sixth part is summarize,summed up the conclusion of the study,analysis of the limitations of the research.