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Research Framework: Every year in Quebec, thousands of children are supported by the Child Welfare Program following the endangerment of their safety or development. Within the foster care system, foster families welcome these children for varying periods of time and thus expose themselves to their departure. These foster parents who do not wish to adopt the children outright can't be legally recognized as parents. Objectives: This article is an inductive qualitative research that aims to explore the affective and psychological aspects of the foster parenting experience.Methodology: Non-directive interviews were conducted with 10 parents from regular foster families. Each participant was met twice. An analysis was conducted on the verbatim transcripts and different categories were developed. The categories gleaned from this analysis are presented through an integrative model.Results: Selflessness is predominant trait in the participants' life trajectory. These people find themselves in a complex position of being both a parent and a non-parent to the children they foster. They express the difficulty of establishing a meaningful relationship with these children who may leave at any moment. They also discuss other important challenges regarding their relationship with the institution. Our results are discussed using the tightrope walker as an analogy for these parents in the integrative category as well as the concept of the desire to foster.Conclusions: Our results identify the characteristics that led couples to foster vulnerable children and they describe the complexity inherent to the position of being a foster parent. The results also shed light on the precariousness of a relationship that oscillates between the desire to foster and the desire for a child.Contributions: The present study contributes to a better understanding of the affective and psychological aspects of the foster parenting experience in Quebec. The necessity of specific support for foster parents is also raised.
Keywords: famille d'accueil, filiation, Québec, placement, protection de la jeunesse, désir d'enfant, parentalité, accompagnement, foster family, filiation, Quebec, placement, child welfare system, desire for a child, parenthood, parenting support
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Research Framework: This article focuses on the relations between parents and their children during adolescence, follow on from researches in sociology of education and sociology of cultural practices. It shows how the parent-child relationship is destabilized during adolescence by new reference models related to the development of a youth culture. Objectives: This article explains how digital practices are integrated and negotiated within the family. It presents different modes of parental regulation of teenagers digital uses linked to parents' representations of digital tools and uses.Methodology: This work is based on interviews with adolescents (n= 78) and some of their parents (n= 28), and 1043 answers from two questionnaires, one destined to the adolescents and one to their parents.Results: The results show four main types of parental regulations (equipment, screen time, space and content) which are developed in different ways related to conflicting "objects" and family educational goals.Conclusions: Our survey reveals that parents have ambivalent views about ICT. These ambivalences are found in their modes of regulation which vary according to the social origin.Contribution: This article shows the complexity of family dynamics related to the regulation of teenagers digital uses. The digital culture of parents and their evolving representations of digital over time are disrupting traditional family educational patterns.
Keywords: adolescence, usages numériques, stratégies éducatives parentales, dynamiques familiales, youth, digital uses, educative methods, family dynamics
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Research Framework: Alongside the "classic" fathers, genetically related to their child and the mother's spouse, there are adoptive fathers, single fathers, stepfathers, non-genetic fathers. Within this diversity appear gay fathers. But choosing gay parenthood is a relatively recent phenomenon that requires confronting a hostile legal and social environment and challenging gender norms. Objectives: The objective of this article is to explore representations of kinship and paternity, including whether or not the genetic link is important to gay fathers who have used gestational surrogacy. Methodology: The paper is based on interviews with 36 gay men in couple's who have used surrogacy to become the father of a child or twins of about 4 months of age. Results: Because they are likely aware of the importance of genetic bonds in dominant social representations of parenthood, the interviewed fathers are very careful that their own relatives make no distinction between them. Some fathers go so far as to refuse to tell others about which father is biologically related to the child. Nevertheless, these dominant representations are not absent, especially at the moment of conception. Indeed, a number of them implanted embryos of each to give themselves a chance to have twins genetically linked to each of the fathers. In the case of a second surrogacy, they often want the second child (second twin or future pregnancy) to be of the father who has not given his sperm the first time. Conclusions: The gathered observations show that the representations of paternity are diversified and combine representations based on genetic ties with representations based more on daily parenthood. Contribution: The article highlights the complexity of paternity representations. These are not just about biogenetic links, but also about elective links.
Keywords: pères gays, paternité génétique, gestation pour autrui, parentalité, gay fathers, genetic paternity, surrogacy, parenthood
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This article summarises the findings of a literature review and of consultation with experts on the health of workers who simultaneously hold precarious job situations : temporary employment agency workers, small non-unionized business workers, and temporary foreign workers. We have observed that : a) it is difficult to draw a portrait of the health of these workers because : b) they are not specifically identified within companies and receive no special attention ; c) they are often hired in non-priority sectors where rigorous monitoring is lacking ; and d) they are excluded from OHS practices because they are only temporarily employed by these companies. These conditions serve to keep them marginalised, even though it would be possible to adapt preventive, occupational health and safety (OHS) practices for workers in precarious job situations. This could be accomplished by reframing our OHS authorities' scientific, administrative, legal, and moral obligations for social justice.
Keywords: emploi précaire, santé et sécurité au travail, travailleurs d'agence de location de personnel, travailleurs étrangers temporaires, travailleurs de petites entreprises, precarious employment, health and safety at work, temporary employment agency workers, temporary foreign workers, workers in small businesses, empleo precario, la salud y la seguridad, trabajadores de agencias empleadoras, trabajadores extranjeros temporales, rabajadores de pequeñas empresas
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Economic objectives and management criteria Of the manufacturing puhlic sectorChristian StoffaësThe enlargernent of the public sector, wich France has realized in 1981-1982 mainly concerns basic industries, often struck by a financial crisis ; high technology capital goods industries ; and that part of the banking sector, which had remained private. The normative micro-economic theory of the enterprises operating in manufacturing industry is rnuch less elaborated, than that of the public services involving a technical rnonopoly. Three objectives can be assigned, a posteriori, to these nationalisations : anti-trust, i.e. control of rnonopolistic positions, especially vis-à-vis public procurement ; anti-conflicts, i.e. extension of industrial democracy ; anti-crisis, i.e. resumption of productive investment, implementation of industrial restructurations and technological development. Management criteria for the public enterprises are based. upon autonomy and profitability. Within the framework of a long term strategy including the previous objectives.