Living in foster care and in a children's home: Voices of children and their caregivers

Abstract

This paper reports on an exploratory study to hear the voices of children and their caregivers in respect of foster care and living in a children's home so that practice may be accordingly guided. Framing the results using ecological and structural theoretical perspectives, structural deficiencies in South African child care practice are exposed whilst highlighting the goodness of fit that needs to exist across concentric spheres of interrelationship in child and family life, a challenging and oft times daunting undertaking in child placement.