가정위탁보호 양육 환경에 관한 연구

A Study on the Environment of the Family Foster Care

The purpose of this study is to review the environment of family foster care provided by foster parents and the environment of fostering the foster children with a view to providing the basic information on the family foster care necessary for vitalization and development of the family foster care services in korea. For this study, ten foster mothers, who have been providing family foster care services through the Korean Association of Foster Parents, were selected as the subject of study and were interviewed by using the unstructured interview method, which is one of the qualitative study methods. The results were as follows; The positive aspects of the family foster care were identified as (ⅰ) the increase of communication among family members originated by foster children, (ⅱ) the increase in maturity of the foster parentsh' own children influence by the existence of foster children and (ⅲ) the existence of the talking companion to the foster mother, and, on the other hand, the negative aspects of the family foster care were identified as (ⅰ) the feeling of guilt for not treating foster children in the same manner with the foster parents' own children, (ⅱ)the concern about foster children's returning to its biological fathers of foster children to meet foster children and (ⅳ) the financial problems.