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“The child can well support this” is the motto of many professionals working in the field of child protection, and many of them are indifferent to the vulnerability of the child, mainly concerned by what they refer to as “parents’ rights”, they advocate only superficial and ineffective reforms. Resu...

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In France, 140 000 children are subject to a placement measure in France. Built around those collected from families of origin, foster families, children’s professionals (judges, social workers, etc.) and, above all, children and adolescents concerned, this work gives back the voice and dignity of t...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe situations of behavioural emergency are at the crossroads of the helplessness of education, child protection and care systems; these situations are responsible for destroying both individual psychisms and care structures; the possible answers are not urgent, but in the long...

This research has a dual objective: first, to analyse the type of care received through the testimony of formerly placed women; second, to gain understanding of their social and familial integration since they left care. This study was originally commissioned by a teenagers' home in the Paris region...

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Research context: To counter the pathological-focused functioning of the child-protection system in France, we developed an assisted-resilience program for the educators. This program is based on the literature about assisted resilience, on the action research methodology and on the main risk and pr...

Summary. Access to care is guaranteed for all in France through its social security system. However, IRDES National Health and Social Protection Surveys estimate that around one in five interviewees report having already given up care for financial reasons. Our aim was to show that, in addition to t...

today, caring for children includes a permanent risk that can lead to harmful occupational attitudes towards children and parents, and judicial consequences (civil or criminal). The concept of abuse and the rights of the child reorganise all the abuse of the child around the idea of the child victim...

A law of 5 March 2007 substantially reformed the child protection system. However, single foreign minors are the big forgotten of this reform as no provision directly improves the conditions for their care. At most, they benefit indirectly from certain aspects of this reform. Sometimes even the gene...

legislative outcome of the 19th century paternalistic and charitable ideology, the Belgian child protection law was passed on 15 May 1912. It is divided into three areas: the forfeiture of paternal power, civil proceedings to protect children who are victims of neglect or defaulting environments (Ch...

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This research focuses on young foreigners arriving in France without their legal guardians: the so-called unaccompanied minors. It proposes an investigation of their “welcoming” and “un-welcoming” conditions following a clinical psychosociological approach. If the International Convention on the Rig...

"When the 1914 war broke out, he [Paul Strauss] is sixty-two years old. He cannot think of becoming a fighter, but takes an active part in the events by acting as Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Committee in the Army, responsible for health problems. (Leclainche, 1976, p. 217.) It is indeed his acti...

This article introduces the child protection reader and develops a number of difficult issues of support for teenagers and their families, showing the particularities of the young person’s mental dimension and attitudes, multidisciplinary and partnership-based work. Some situations are discussed in...

'pbThe social care for children involves 400 000 children, or about one and a half million people if families are properly included. With more than EUR 6,890 million in annual cost, it is the main expenditure item of the departments. More profoundly, in human terms, it still marks the people concern...

Ключевые слова: родство, анонимные роды, отказ от ребенка, усыновление, происхождение, архивы На основе исследования, проведенного в архивах французской Службы защиты детей, мы проанализируем письменные и материальные "следы" биологических родителей, сохраняемые в делах детей-отказников или детей, р...

National audience After women’s autonomy and independence from the 1960s onwards, the individualisation movement that works in our societies now extends to children. The child is recognised as a ‘fully-fledged’ person, as established by the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. As an individua...

The Higher Social Labour Council has been invited by Fabienne Quiriaux, advisor to Philippe Bas, to provide expertise to the Minister for Social Security, the harsh people, people with disabilities and the family, and to formulate his opinions and suggestions for the future framework law on child pr...