FOSTER CARER`S PROFILE. INSIGHTS FROM ROMANIA
FOSTER CARER`S PROFILE. INSIGHTS FROM ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: Background. The most important pieces of recent legislation on child protection are the updated Law No. 272 and Law No. 273 of 2004. A normative act relevant to foster care is the Emergency Ordinance 27/2024 that modifies some of the conditions for obtaining the professional maternal assistant certificate, raising real challenges in widening the network of maternal assistants/foster carers. Purpose. Our study aims to outline the profile of maternal assistants within a GDSWCP in the north-west region of Romania. Methodology. In the framework of the quantitative research carried out to outline the profile of the foster carers/maternal assistants we used the study of documents officially registered within the specialized service of the GDSWCP. Results. In July 2022, 90 professional foster carers were employed, of which 5 men and 85 women. Their high average age is noteworthy, namely 54.54 years. We were interested in variables such as education level, marital status, whether they had children of their own, background, whether they had a job at the time of requesting the assessment for attestation, the motivation for choosing this profession, the disciplinary methods used in the foster carer's family as well as the presence of physical punishment in the foster carer’s childhood.

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