CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Markó, Anna Mária |
|---|---|
| Title | Moving chidren to foster care on the basis of or as a result of poor financial status and unsatisfactory habitat a shared responsibility of family and state |
| Summary | The thesis looks at the Hungarian and German child protection system, and attempts to analyze recent changes in these systems, the tendency of shifting towards a child protection oriented, investigatory, punitive model of child protection and the significant rise in the proportion of children taken into state care. The aim of this comparison is to identify factors within a child protection system that affect the extent to which the system is removing children born to families of low socioeconomic status and marginalized ethnic group. Recent cuts in the welfare system of the two countries have increased levels of child poverty, thus, the number of children seen as needing “saving” has increased. Vague definitions of child neglect, the high discretionary power of individual decision-makers, professionals’ awareness of their criminal liability and the need to function within public spotlight all enhance the phenomenon of class- and race disparity. On the basis of Lipsky’s model of street level bureaucrats, actions of individual professionals have an utmost importance in the implementation of public policies. The overwhelmed state of these individuals results in distortions of the policy and decisions built on stereotypes. For these reasons the support, continuous education and supervision of these individuals is indispensable for the implementation of any anti-discrimination policy. |
| Supervisor | Neményi, Mária; Bárd, Károly |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/marko_anna.pdf |
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