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Experiencing Nearness in Foster Family

Summary/Abstract: Family is the most natural and essential community of people, based on bonds of blood and love. Having unique character, family is remarkably significant for harmonious development of man’s personality and for all structures formed by theman. Properly functioning family satisfies child’s basic needs like the feeling of security, acceptance, experiencing and returning love, appreciation and interaction. Family isa community, which multiplies feelings and actions, cultivates and modifies members’ personal aspirations as well as self-image and perception of others. It is then certain that family is the most valuable environment for individual development. Unfortunately,under the influence of numerous factors, it goes through crisis, which may cause dysfunctions and even pathologies. Dysfunctions and violations in family life may cause lack or inefficient care towards off-spring, and in consequence, contribute to limitation of parental authority or with drawal of parental authority and placing children in foster family care. In these cases, foster family becomes a place where charge develops and experiences “the flow of feelings”. This study presents results of empirical research,carried out in Podkarpacie region in foster families organised in “Big Heart” – Foster Parenthood Association in Podkarpacie region. Structure of this study is built by the following variables: ways of experiencing nearness with foster parents and their children by a charge, describing foster family as a place of children functioning.

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