Summary information
Study title
Children in Foster Care 1940-1990: Life Experiences 2018
Creator
Hytönen, Kirsi-Maria (University of Jyväskylä) - 0000-0003-3460-7508
Markkola, Pirjo (University of Jyväskylä) - 0000-0001-8776-0974
Kuronen, Marjo (University of Jyväskylä) - 0000-0002-7665-2158
Korkiakangas, Pirjo (University of Jyväskylä)
Oksanen, Johanna (University of Jyväskylä) - 0000-0002-2101-4490
Malinen, Antti (University of Jyväskylä) - 0000-0002-1967-5871
Salenius, Paula (University of Jyväskylä)
Junkala, Pekka (University of Jyväskylä)
Haikari, Janne (University of Jyväskylä) - 0000-0001-8672-092X
Tawah, Sanna (University of Jyväskylä)
Study number / PID
FSD3828 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3828 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd3828 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
The data consists of interviews with people who spent their childhood in foster care. In the interviews, the respondents talk extensively about their own childhood memories and life experiences. The interviewees were placed or fostered either in a foster family, children's home, reform school or other child protection institution between 1940 and 1990. First, the interviewees were asked about their early childhood and what kind of family they were born into. They were also asked about their experience of foster care and what they remembered about their first foster placement, as well as what they thought was the reason for the fostering. This was followed by questions about the foster-care placements and foster families and the kind of life the interviewee had lived. There was also an interest in contact with biological parents and also with social services during the foster-care placements and what kind of support the interviewee had received during his or her life. Interviewees were also asked about their experiences after the foster-care placements and about their current life, career and family situation. Finally, the interviewee was asked how he or she felt the foster-care placement had affected his or her life in general. The background data include the interviewee's year of birth within five years, gender, region of residence, education, occupation and information of the different foster-care placements. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/08/2018 - 30/11/2023
Country
Finland
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Universe
Persons who were placed in a foster family, children's home, reform school or other child protection institution between 1940 and 1990.
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Availability
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Face-to-face interview
Web-based interview
Telephone interview
Funding information
Funder
Kone Foundation
Grant number
2100003744
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2024
Terms of data access
The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.
Related publications
- Hytönen, K.-M., & Malinen, Antti 2018. "Cos I'm a Survivor". Narratives of coping and resilience in recollections of difficult childhood in post-war Finland. Ethnologia Fennica, 45, 55-78.
- Markkola, Pirjo, Malinen, Antti & Hytönen, Kirsi-Maria 2018. Conducting Commissioned Research: The Finnish Inquiry on the Failures of Child Welfare, 1937-83. Scandinavian Journal of History.
- Gordon Lynch, Pirjo Markkola, Eoin O'Sullivan, Johanna Sköld & Shurlee Swain (2020). 'The uses of historical research in child abuse inquiries.” History & Policy.
- Malinen, Antti (2024) Murtuvat hiljaisuudet - traumakokemusten kantaminen, vaikutukset ja käsittely suomalaisperheissä 1944-2024. Teoksessa Sanna Isosävi, Marjo Ruismäki & Saara-Leena Kaunisto (toim.) Traumatisoituminen ja perhesuhteet. Helsinki: Traumaterapiakeskus.
- Hytönen, K.-M., Malinen, A., Salenius, P., Haikari, J., Markkola, P., Kuronen, M., & Koivisto, J. (2016). Lastensuojelun sijaishuollon epäkohdat ja lasten kaltoinkohtelu 1937-1983. Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö. Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriön raportteja ja muistioita, 2016:22
- Hytönen, Kirsi-Maria & Salenius, Paula 2017. Yhteiskunnallisen etnologisen tutkimuksen eettisiä kysymyksiä. Teoksessa O.Fingerroos et al. (toim.), Yhteiskuntaetnologia. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, SKS.
- Malinen, Antti & Hytönen, Kirsi-Maria 2019. Kaltoinkohtelun äänet ja hiljaisuudet lastensuojelun historian tutkimuksessa. Teoksessa Historiako teoriatonta? Toim. Matti O. Hannikainen, Tuomas Tepora ja Mirkka Danielsbacka. Gaudeamus.
- Markkola, Pirjo 2021. Lastensuojelun epäonnistumisten historia. Teoksessa Hyvä ja paha tieto. Toim. Ilari Hetemäki, Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Maria Lähteenmäki & Esa Väliverronen. Gaudeamus, Helsinki, s. 49-61.
- Hytönen, K.-M., & Malinen, A. 2022. Kaltoinkohtelun muistot lapsuudesta: muistitietotutkimus vaikuttamassa yhteiskuntaan. Teoksessa U. Savolainen, & R. Taavetti (toim.), Muistitietotutkimuksen paikka. Teoriat, käytännöt ja muutos (pp. 438-458). Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia, 1478.
- Koskinen-Koivisto, E., & Hytönen, K.-M. 2022. Kerrostuneet tulkinnat. Vaikeat lapsuusmuistot muistitietohaastattelussa. Teoksessa K. Vehkalahti, E. Jouhki, S. Lipkin, J. Sitomaniemi-San, & T. Kuokkanen (toim.), Matkaopas lapsuuden historian tutkimukseen. Monitieteisiä näkökulmia ja menetelmiä (137-161). Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. Historiallisia tutkimuksia, 288.