The study of the foster cares parenting behaviors between biological children and foster children

• Main Authors: CHEN, TZU-TING, 陳子婷
• Other Authors: HU, HUI-YING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6kjqnu

碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 社會工作與兒童少年福利學系 === 106 === The purpose of this research is to understand how foster parents react differently towards the behaviors of their biological children and foster children when child rearing. The goal is also to understand how foster parents’ role expectations, expectations towards social welfare organizations and their own feelings towards managing behavior affect how they rear biological children and foster children. In order to conduct questionnaire surveys, the researcher created a series of scales, including “Foster Parents’ Role Expectation Scale”, “Scale of Expectation towards Social Welfare Organizations”, “Scale of Foster Parents’ Feelings towards Behavior Management” and “Scale for Child Rearing”, based on related literature and theories to use as her research instruments. Stratified purposeful sampling was used to choose 10 cities or counties in Taiwan (not including Penghu and Kinmen County) and the effective sample size was 201. The statistical analysis led to the following research findings: (1)More than 90% of foster parents are from dual-parent households; Over 50% are over the age of 51; More than 80% have at least attained a high school level of education; Around 36% have been foster parents for less than five years; Over 60% have two children; More than 60% can claim that their oldest biological child is over 21; Over half of the foster parents can claim that their youngest biological child is also over the age of 21; Foster parents who have fostered 1 to 5 children for over 6 months make up over half of the sample; Most foster children enter foster care due to abuse or neglect, making up over 70% of the sample; When it comes to the oldest age bracket when leaving foster care, over half of the children were at least 11 years old; When it comes to the youngest age bracket when leaving foster care, over 60% were between the ages of 1 to 5; More than 70% of the foster parents signed up to become foster families in order to care for disadvantaged children. (2)There are significant differences in foster parents’ role expectations when it comes to “emotional communication” and “discipline” towards biological children and foster children. (3)When it comes to the foster parents’ feelings towards behavior management of biological children and foster children, there are significant differences between “spousal support” and “behavior requests”. (4)There is significant difference between foster parents’ authoritative disciplining of biological children and foster children. (5)When rearing biological children, foster parents’ role expectations in “emotional communication” and “disciplining” have positive correlations with “encouragement of independence and demonstration” and “authoritative disciplining” in parenting behaviors. There is also positive correlation between “daily caregiving” and “encouragement of independence and demonstration”. When rearing foster children, “emotional communication”, “daily caregiving” and “disciplining” all have positive correlations with “encouragement of independence and demonstration” and “authoritative disciplining” in parenting behaviors. (6)For rearing both biological children and foster children, “satisfying developmental needs” in the foster parents’ expectations towards social welfare organizations has positive correlation with “encouragement of independence and demonstration” and “authoritative disciplining” in parenting behaviors. On the other hand, there is positive correlation between “personal safety” and “encouragement of independence and demonstration”. (7)When it comes to behavior management of both biological children and foster children, foster parents’ feelings of “spousal support”, “sibling interactions” and “behavior requests” have positive correlations with “encouragement of independence and demonstration” and “authoritative disciplining” in parenting behaviors. (8)“Parents suffering from serious sickness or disabilities”, “emotional communication”, “behavior requests” and “sibling interactions” all have explanatory power over parenting behaviors towards biological children. “Parents suffering from serious sickness or disabilities”, “emotional communication”, “disciplining”, “behavior requests” and “sibling interactions” all have explanatory power over parenting behaviors towards foster children. Lastly, the researcher offers concrete advice based on the conclusions and research findings above to serve as reference for future research or foster parents’ training courses offered by organizations.