Dzieciństwo gorszych szans jako wyzwanie dla społeczeństwa obywatelskiego
The Childhood of Worse Life Chances as a Challenge for a Citizen Society

Summary/Abstract: Social and economic changes on the turn of 19th and 20th century caused some unprofitable changes in the existence of polish families, so that we can say about new categories – pictures of childhood, for example: “childhood of subjective and objective” categories, “television childhood”, ”computer childhood”, “childhood in net”, ”childhood of worse chances”. All these refer to sick, disable children and also these, who are from multiply families, village families, children living in the street. Valorization of present, social care system should take into consideration some rules to have it the features of civic character. Social work is a new formula of protective society. Specific the present social care expresses in fact, that care, in a great degree has out of institutional features. Care and social work, specific for previous system isn’t sufficient area for practice activities, because it’s character refers to narrow group children and youth: sick, disable, who need care activity, in spite of social work, which has wider context and refers to practice activity, forming new models and work conceptions in local environment. In social work professional activities has been mainly taken by social workers. So that social care should have community character (family centered practices). These conceptions of social care are propitious by community ideas, as also ideas of civic nation. These type of activities should include, gradually, European standards about children care, describing in concrete documents, based on autonomy family, primacy family in children education, what describe the rules of organization the social care institutions. Actually social care should take into consideration, a part of concentration idea, reintegration rule (searching for new alternatives for institutional care, creating small family institutions and make easy contact orphans with their families. The idea of civic society should also develop, in a wilder scale, activities based on respect in family living the solidarity and auxiliary rules. Such a role might act voluntary work, which tradition is known from XII century. The map of social needs, described by dangers of families lives is a kind of challenge for developing new form of help and care, especially out of institutions, thanks to them “childhood of worse chance” might be less painfully experienced.

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