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dc.contributor.authorReimer, Daniela-
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-08T12:13:40Z-
dc.date.available2023-09-08T12:13:40Z-
dc.date.issued2023-08-30-
dc.identifier.isbn9781447365648de_CH
dc.identifier.urihttps://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/28598-
dc.description.abstractThe legal and social situation of foster care and the role expectations of foster parenthood embody a variety of tensions. In many foster families, mothers experience their role as ‘the mother of the foster child’, and foster mothers want to be ‘good mothers’ – often even ‘better mothers’ compared with the child’s birth mother. Accordingly, foster mothers tend to exhibit intensive mothering. However, if foster care placements break down, the affected foster mothers experience the breakdown not only as an end of their role as foster mothers, but as a shattering of their entire identity. The chapter is based on a study conducted in Switzerland, Germany and the UK on ‘Breakdown in Foster Care’ and focuses solely on the German sample. A brief introduction to the structural context of foster care in Germany is provided, and structural ambivalences and contradictions reagrding foster care from the German-language literature are presented and discussed. In the context of the aforementioned project, partial biographical interviews of the various actors involved were conducted, and multi-perspective case studies were reconstructed. The chapter draws on two contrasting case studies of foster mothers and their foster sons.de_CH
dc.language.isoende_CH
dc.publisherPolicy Pressde_CH
dc.relation.ispartofBiographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. Life Choices, Identities and Methodsde_CH
dc.rightsLicence according to publishing contractde_CH
dc.subjectMotherhoodde_CH
dc.subjectFoster motherde_CH
dc.subjectFoster care break downde_CH
dc.subjectIdentityde_CH
dc.subjectBiographyde_CH
dc.subject.ddc306.8: Familiensoziologiede_CH
dc.subject.ddc362.7: Jugendhilfede_CH
dc.titleUnplanned breakdown of foster mothering : biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothersde_CH
dc.typeBuchbeitragde_CH
dcterms.typeTextde_CH
zhaw.departementSoziale Arbeitde_CH
zhaw.organisationalunitInstitut für Kindheit, Jugend und Familie (IKJF)de_CH
zhaw.publisher.placeBristolde_CH
dc.identifier.doi10.56687/9781447365648-014de_CH
zhaw.funding.euNode_CH
zhaw.originated.zhawYesde_CH
zhaw.pages.end215de_CH
zhaw.pages.start194de_CH
zhaw.parentwork.editorNurse, Lyudmilla-
zhaw.parentwork.editorMoran, Lisa-
zhaw.parentwork.editorSidiropulu-Janků, Kateřina-
zhaw.publication.statuspublishedVersionde_CH
zhaw.publication.reviewPeer review (Publikation)de_CH
zhaw.webfeedKinder- und Jugendhilfede_CH
zhaw.funding.zhawUnerwartete Abbrüche von Pflegeverhältnissen im Kinder- und Jugendalterde_CH
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Reimer, D. (2023). Unplanned breakdown of foster mothering : biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothers. In L. Nurse, L. Moran, & K. Sidiropulu-Janků (Eds.), Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. Life Choices, Identities and Methods (pp. 194–215). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447365648-014
Reimer, D. (2023) ‘Unplanned breakdown of foster mothering : biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothers’, in L. Nurse, L. Moran, and K. Sidiropulu-Janků (eds) Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. Life Choices, Identities and Methods. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 194–215. Available at: https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447365648-014.
D. Reimer, “Unplanned breakdown of foster mothering : biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothers,” in Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. Life Choices, Identities and Methods, L. Nurse, L. Moran, and K. Sidiropulu-Janků, Eds. Bristol: Policy Press, 2023, pp. 194–215. doi: 10.56687/9781447365648-014.
REIMER, Daniela, 2023. Unplanned breakdown of foster mothering : biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothers. In: Lyudmilla NURSE, Lisa MORAN und Kateřina SIDIROPULU-JANKŮ (Hrsg.), Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. Life Choices, Identities and Methods. Bristol: Policy Press. S. 194–215. ISBN 9781447365648
Reimer, Daniela. 2023. “Unplanned Breakdown of Foster Mothering : Biographical Perspectives on Identity Challenges of Foster Mothers.” In Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. Life Choices, Identities and Methods, edited by Lyudmilla Nurse, Lisa Moran, and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků, 194–215. Bristol: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447365648-014.
Reimer, Daniela. “Unplanned Breakdown of Foster Mothering : Biographical Perspectives on Identity Challenges of Foster Mothers.” Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. Life Choices, Identities and Methods, edited by Lyudmilla Nurse et al., Policy Press, 2023, pp. 194–215, https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447365648-014.


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