The self-defined experience of secular foster-care services for ultra-religious women in Israel: Using phenomenology to create cultural sensitive services |
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| Institution: | 1. Arts in Social Work Masters Specialization, Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Dept. of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel;2. Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Dept. of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel;1. Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, TW20 0EX, UK;2. Children''s HIV Association, The Wool Hall. 12 St. Thomas Street, Bristol BS1 6JJ, UK;1. Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, United States;2. Human Capital Research Collaborative, University of Minnesota, 301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States;3. Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, 51 E River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States;4. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States;5. Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, University of Minnesota, 206 Burton Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States;1. School of Social Work, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, United States;2. Children and Family Futures, United States;3. School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, United States;1. Department of Didactics and School Organization, Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Tolosa Avenue 70, 20018 San Sebastian, (Spain);2. Departament of History and Theory of Education, Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Tolosa Avenue 70, 20018 San Sebastian, (Spain);3. Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education, Faculty of Psychology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Tolosa Avenue 70, 20018 San Sebastian, (Spain) |
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| Abstract: | This paper qualitatively explores how foster parents from a religious minority group – more specifically foster parents from the Jewish ultra-orthodox sector in Israel experience the act of fostering through secular welfare services. Central themes that the women raised include religious spiritual beliefs as enhancing positive meaning of the act of foster care: Ambivalence of other women in the community because of fostering through external state services: The husband and religious leader as a central support due to the spiritual meanings of foster care. The central themes in terms of the secular services were their role as a protective financial base for creating a clear contract concerning the foster care as compared to informal fostering within the community and a culturally sanctioned exposure to psychological concepts and secular childcare practices. Lack of understanding of the secular welfare services of the importance of each group within their community was also stated as a challenge. Overall, the findings reveal the complex ways that these ultra-religious women from a very closed community negotiate and integrate resources from within their community and from the secular foster services outside of their community. Implications for creating culturally adapted secular foster services for Ultra-orthodox Jewish women are discussed, as are the methodological implications of exploring phenomenological experience of minority groups of foster care services as a base for culturally sensitive understanding, is discussed. |
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