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The Foster Family Process to Maintain the Will to Remain in Foster Care—Implications for a Sustainable Programme
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There were 7032 children in out-of-home care in 2018 in Portugal. Of these, only 2.8%
were in foster care, despite this being the recommended response according to legal regulations. It is
critical that more families be encouraged to become foster carers and also that experienced carers
stay in the system to create a sustainable programme. How is the will to foster a child maintained?
What can we learn from foster families’ experiences to improve childcare and the child protection
system? The methodology of this study was based on interviews with foster carers. The analysis was
inspired by grounded theory. We found three types of foster families, classified according to their will
to leave or remain in foster care—unconditional, hesitant, or retired. The results suggest that the key
elements for foster carers to remain in the foster care system are (i) their level of satisfaction with how
the previous placement concluded, (ii) keeping in touch with the ex-foster child, (iii) the feeling of
acknowledgement by all the stakeholders, and (iv) the quality of social services as well as the support
of the professional teams.
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foster care foster family foster family remain sustainability child welfare system Portugal
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Diogo, E.; Branco, F. The Foster Family Process to Maintain the Will to Remain in Foster Care—Implications for a Sustainable Programme. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7942. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197942