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  • Monimuotoisten perheiden saaman yhteiskunnallisen tuen ja arjen kokemusten ristiriita 
    Jylhälehto, Sini (2023)
    Previous research on the needs of diverse families has focused on legislation and its functionality in diverse families. In addition, everyday conflicts have been studied in general from the perspective of families with children, without giving special attention to the diversity of families. The purpose of this study is to map the experiences of diverse families about the support they receive and thus highlight the special needs of families who are not included in the family norm in a support system that draws from a nuclear family approach. The study examines the social support received by diverse families in relation to their everyday experiences. The data is examined to find the conflict situations that diverse families experience due to the support they receive or being excluded from support in their everyday lives. Support refers to both financial benefits and other societal support received by families. The context of the study is in the families' own everyday experiences. The research has been carried out by means of qualitative content analysis and is based on the phenomenographic research tradition. The data has been formed from the answers of a questionnaire “How far does your money go?” carried out by the Diverse Families network. The answers used to form the data were from these questions: 1) "If you could change a mean of support or benefit to better suit the situation of your family or household, what would it be and how would you change it? If you wish, you can mention more than one mean of support or benefit” and 2) "If your children live in two or more different homes, have you noticed any shortcomings in the support or benefit systems concerning this situation? If so, what?" 285 respondents had answered either one or both questions. The formed data were analyzed in a theory-driven manner. As a result, the study highlights a fault: there are diverse families that receive societal sup-port that does not meet the needs they experience. Conflicts arise mainly because the family's situation is not comprehensively mapped out. Families experience that their needs are not listened to or understood in the support process, which is perceived as fragmented and does not take diversity into consideration. The study shows that diverse families should be supported and studied primarily from an intersectional perspective.
  • Vanhemmuuden tuki perhepoliittisena tavoitteena : Miten vanhemmuuden tuen keinot, tavoitteet ja kehityskohteet näyttäytyvät poliittisissa asiakirjoissa? 
    Jekkonen, Netta (2024)
    From the year 1999 every government has aimed to support parenting (Sihvonen, 2020). Inadequate parenting has been seen as a cause for distress and unfavourable development in children and youth, which parenting support aims to prevent (Sihvonen, 2020). However, the concern directed at the quality of parenting is an old phenomenon. Concerns about upbringing at homes has influenced the founding of finnish home upbringing association (current parenting association) in the year 1907 and the founding and spreading of cribs and nurserys (current early childhood education) (Parjo, 2003; Antikainen, Rinne & Koski, 2021). Although parenting has been around through the history of humankind, the term “parenting” has formed along the societal modernization (Sihvonen, 2020). Parenting can be observed as multidimensional construct that is genetically and socially formed relation between a parent and a child and on the other hand culturally formed phenomena, that is build, learned and developed through social interaction with the surrounding community (Arell ym., 2019; Sihvonen, 2020). The quality of parenting has been proved to have long lasting effects on the child´s development. Especially the parents ability or inability to respond to the child´s needs in the right time and in an appropriate quantity and quality has long-term effects on the child´s emotional life, brain development and physical health (Kalland & Salo, 2020; Viljamaa, 2003). The purpose of this study is to identify family policy measures that targeted to parenting support, aims of parenting support and parenting support development goals. This study is conducted as a qualitative content analysis using a systematic approach and the literature consists of 22 publications from the governmental publication archive. According to my study, parenting support is implemented primarily through informative support (parenting- and family counselling, guidance), early childhood education, multi-professional cooperation, study-based parenting programs and social support. Parenting support aims to influence the overall wellbeing of families and to prevent children´s negative development, which in addition to personal challenges, causes significant costs to society. The challenges of parenting support were identified as scarce resources, availability of services, timely identification of needed support, individual-oriented culture, the increased diversity of society and the lack of cooperation between service providers. According to the study, the role of early childhood education in parenting support seemed to be conflicted.

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