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Article: Forsberg Hannele and Poso Tarja: 'Ambiguous position of the child in supervised meetings'.(Other)(Abstract)
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- Adoption & Fostering
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Child & Family Social Work 13:1, February 2008, pp 52-60
The authors address the ambiguous nature of supervised meetings between children and their non-residential parent(s) which, according to the current legal idea, should serve the best interest of the child. In Finland the meetings between the child and the nonresidential parent can be ordered to be supervised if there are justified grounds for assuming that they constitute a risk for the child's safety. In many parts of Europe the need for such kinds of meetings controlled by outsiders has increased. The aim of the article is to consider the child's position and the closely related issue of the child's ...