Do you love me? An empirical analysis of the feeling of love amongst children in out of-home care

Lausten, Mette and Frederiksen, Signe (2016) Do you love me? An empirical analysis of the feeling of love amongst children in out of-home care. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 15 (3). ISSN 1478-1840

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Abstract

Questions about whether love can be offered in residential child care units, whether combining child protection and safeguarding in social work with loving care or care with love is possible, and whether children and young people feel loved by someone who is paid to care for them, have raised long-standing issues. Social pedagogy puts such questions at the core of its philosophy and practice, and has been a fundamental part of care in Denmark for many years. Drawing on a Danish survey of 1,400 children in out-of-home care, this paper analyses the subjective feeling of love amongst children living in out-of-home care. The main moderating factors for feeling loved are the feeling of security and the feeling of social support, the tangible counterpart of Honneth's concept of recognition.

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