- Author:
Dalila Forni
- E-mail:
dalila.forni@studenti.unimi.it
- Institution:
Università degli Studi di Milano
- Year of publication:
2017
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
87-102
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/IW.2017.08.19
- PDF:
iw/08_2/iw8205.pdf
New Families in English and Italian Children’s Literature: An Analysis of the Contemporary Publishing Industry
This article aims to offer an overview of non-traditional families in contemporary children’s literature. The most influential works about divorce, adoption, and same-sex families will be presented, considering both Italian authors and translations from English into Italian. These contemporary themes are developed in picture books for a pre-scholar audience, but also in youngadult novels, covering an extremely wide range of readers. The aim of this essay is to observe how the Italian publishing industry is reacting to these new tendencies that are now very common in many countries of the world but cannot emerge completely in others. Nevertheless, according to recent studies, children’s picture books or novels in which different kinds of families are shown are a particularly important tool to teach diversity and tolerance and to promote modern values.
- Author:
Ingrida Baranauskienė
- Institution:
Klaipeda University, Lithuania
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2011-7957
- Author:
Ieva Kazakauskaitė
- Institution:
Klaipeda University, Lithuania
- Author:
Valdas Rimkus
- E-mail:
valdasrim@gmail.com
- Institution:
Klaipeda University, Lithuania
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2363-3321
- Year of publication:
2022
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
9-33
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2022.04.01
- PDF:
kie/138/kie13801.pdf
The article represents a part of a master thesis research project carried out at Klaipeda university. Concepts of biological, emotional, and procedural parenting obligations were utilised to analyse the issues of social work support for adoptive families. Procedural and emotional components were found to raise the biggest challenges. Although fostering and adoption mean raising a child deprived of parental care and usually needing additional help, social work support is mostly oriented towards fostering families. Therefore, social work support for adoptive parents while rather intensive in preparing the necessary documentation, initial training and matching of a family and a child, basically stops after the child arrives in a family. After that support remains purely voluntary and occasional. Research results show that the adoption process needs to be improved by revising training programmes, enhancing inter-institutional communication, and enriching the information provided for adoptive parents. The current procedures are seen as inefficient by social workers and adoptive parents.