Experiences Following the Deaths of Disabled Foster Children: “We Don't Feel Like ‘Foster’ Parents”

Foster parents in the child welfare system occupy a unique position in our culture. While expected to parent and provide safe, loving, and normative family experiences to a child removed from her/his family of origin, they are, simultaneously, expected to remember that they are not the child's...

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Published in:	Omega: Journal of Death and Dying Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 347 - 369
Main Author:	Schormans, Ann Fudge
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-01-2004 Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:	Bereavement Canada Caregivers Child Mortality Child Welfare Services Children & youth Death Death & dying Disabled children Foster care Foster carers Foster Children Handicapped Others' perceptions Parent Child Relations People with disabilities Personal experiences Qualitative research Severely Surrogate Parents
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