Out-of-Home Placements and Notions of Family in Norway and in France
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Picot, A. (2012). Out-of-Home Placements and Notions of Family in Norway and in France. Sosiologi i dag, 42 (3-4) http://ojs.novus.no/index.php/SID/article/view/422Sammendrag
Comparative welfare state research has shown that French and Nordic welfare
systems provide similar high levels of support legislated for families, but differ
in their treatments of the family unit. This article explores notions of family
implicit in French and Norwegian child protection laws through a
comparison of legal provisions regulating out-of-home placements. Taking as
a starting point the concept of filiation bond, which designates the bond
between a child and his/her parents, the analysis shows that there are
significant differences in how the family is conceptualized in Norway and
France. While an individual notion of family is implicit in Norwegian child
protection law, the notion of family underpinning French legislation tends
to be more collective. The article suggests that these differences may be related
to the interplay between different interest groups, and to the disciplines
dominating the production of knowledge on which state interventions in the
family are based.