The Discourse on the “Dangerous Child Welfare Parent”—How Contact with Parents Is Constructed as a Risk for Children Under Public Care in Norway
This article discusses contact and interaction between children, siblings and parents after a care order. We have collected and analyzed audio recordings of discussions between child welfare employees in Norway. In these meetings, the employees discuss and decide the extent and organization of visit...
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| description | This article discusses contact and interaction between children, siblings and parents after a care order. We have collected and analyzed audio recordings of discussions between child welfare employees in Norway. In these meetings, the employees discuss and decide the extent and organization of visits and contact between parents and children under public care. Visitation mainly emerges as a risk in the discussions and thus as something that must be limited. This article shows how this risk can be seen in the context of a political or moral discourse in which these parents are given an identity and a position as “dangerous”. However, there are some exceptions. In these exceptions, parents emerge as significant and important, and contact is seen as an opportunity for the child. Here, it is the risk of not having contact that stands out. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9f3ef35e1d1b4b87b361e5d8111d223e2025-08-20T02:43:07ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602025-03-0114317310.3390/socsci14030173The Discourse on the “Dangerous Child Welfare Parent”—How Contact with Parents Is Constructed as a Risk for Children Under Public Care in NorwayHilde Anette Aamodt0Marianne Buen Sommerfeldt1Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy OsloMet—Oslo Metropolitan University, 0167 Oslo, NorwayDepartment of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy OsloMet—Oslo Metropolitan University, 0167 Oslo, NorwayThis article discusses contact and interaction between children, siblings and parents after a care order. We have collected and analyzed audio recordings of discussions between child welfare employees in Norway. In these meetings, the employees discuss and decide the extent and organization of visits and contact between parents and children under public care. Visitation mainly emerges as a risk in the discussions and thus as something that must be limited. This article shows how this risk can be seen in the context of a political or moral discourse in which these parents are given an identity and a position as “dangerous”. However, there are some exceptions. In these exceptions, parents emerge as significant and important, and contact is seen as an opportunity for the child. Here, it is the risk of not having contact that stands out.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/3/173governancepolitical discoursefoster caresocial work |
| spellingShingle | Hilde Anette Aamodt Marianne Buen Sommerfeldt The Discourse on the “Dangerous Child Welfare Parent”—How Contact with Parents Is Constructed as a Risk for Children Under Public Care in Norway Social Sciences governance political discourse foster care social work |
| title | The Discourse on the “Dangerous Child Welfare Parent”—How Contact with Parents Is Constructed as a Risk for Children Under Public Care in Norway |
| title_full | The Discourse on the “Dangerous Child Welfare Parent”—How Contact with Parents Is Constructed as a Risk for Children Under Public Care in Norway |
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| title_short | The Discourse on the “Dangerous Child Welfare Parent”—How Contact with Parents Is Constructed as a Risk for Children Under Public Care in Norway |
| title_sort | discourse on the dangerous child welfare parent how contact with parents is constructed as a risk for children under public care in norway |
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