Adoption from Foster Care in Bulgaria – Latest Legal Ideas Analyzed through Some Recently Collected Empirical Data
Adoption from Foster Care in Bulgaria – Latest Legal Ideas Analyzed through Some Recently Collected Empirical Data
Author(s): Elya Tzaneva, Hristinka BashevaSubject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Applied Sociology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: adoption; foster care; children in need; children at risk; child protection policy
Summary/Abstract: Child adoption and foster care are the two main directions in the official state care for children in need. Both are well situated in the Bulgarian traditional culture which creates psychological prerequisites and motivates a good starting position for both programs in the present day. At the same time, they reflect extremely vividly the sociopolitical nuances of the official view on children at risk and in need, and very closely follow the international influences on the subject. As elements of alternative childcare, both adoption and foster care enter into specific interrelations and show convergences and fields of mutual coverage, but also controversies that might hinder their successful realization. The present paper investigates some ideas of this realization in the work-in-progress Family Code, involving some recent field studies on the subject from relevant situations in different areas in Bulgaria.
Journal: Between the Worlds
- Issue Year: 1/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 118-132
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
