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Money in Foster Care: Social Issues in Paid Parenthood
Open Access
Academic Editor(s): Malin Åkerström (Lund University) and Susanne Boethius (Lund University)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.i526
Table of Contents
Navigating the Moral Landscape of Foster Care: The Risk of Blame and Suspicion in Paid Parenthood | |||||||||
Katarina Jacobsson | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 20 August 2025 | |||||||||
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Foster Care on the Market: Swedish Independent Foster Care Agencies in an International Context | |||||||||
Evelina Fridell Lif, Tommy Lundström, David Pålsson, Marie Sallnäs and Emelie Shanks | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 27 August 2025 | |||||||||
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The Professionalisation of Foster Care in Norway | |||||||||
Renee Thørnblad and Jeanette Skoglund | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 4 September 2025 | |||||||||
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A System Stretched Beyond Its Elastic Limits: The South African Foster Care Grant System | |||||||||
Sipho Sibanda | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 4 September 2025 | |||||||||
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Nurses, Foster Mothers, Businesswomen, and Baby‐Farmers: Market‐Based Infant Care in Pre‐WWI Australia | |||||||||
Nell Musgrove | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 10 September 2025 | |||||||||
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Bulgarian Foster Parents and Money: Strategies, Identity Work, and Relations With the Child | |||||||||
Radostina Antonova and Gergana Nenova | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 September 2025 | |||||||||
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Historical Perspectives on Foster Care Payments: Changing Practices During the 20th Century | |||||||||
Ann-Sofie Bergman | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 17 September 2025 | |||||||||
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Work, Care, Family Life, and More: The Layered Framings of Swedish Foster Care | |||||||||
David Wästerfors | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 18 September 2025 | |||||||||
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Foster Carers’ Perspective on Financial Issues When Young People Leave Care | |||||||||
Ingrid Höjer and Inger Oterholm | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 September 2025 | |||||||||
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Perceptions About the Role of Money in Contemporary Romanian Foster Care | |||||||||
Borbála Kovács and Ovidiu Oltean | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 25 September 2025 | |||||||||
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Money, Love, and Work: Transcending Dichotomies in Analyses of Foster Care | |||||||||
Oddbjørg Skjær Ulvik | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 1 October 2025 | |||||||||
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Child Protection and the Municipal Budget: Interaction and Sensemaking Over a Welfare Dilemma | |||||||||
Teres Hjärpe | |||||||||
Article | Open Access | Published: 1 October 2025 | |||||||||
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