Rezultate ale unui studiu longitudinal al iesirii copiilor din plasamentul la asistent maternal profesionist/[Results of a Longitudinal Study of the Exit of Children from Professional Family Foster Care]

The study analyzes the children who entered professional foster care in Bistrifa-Nasaud county, between 1998 and 2012. More than half of them (n = 264; 54.7%) have never left the protection system. The aim of the research is to identify the characteristics of the children and of their birth family that can be seen as predictors to adoption or reunification. Our study is a descriptive one and it relies on a life-course approach using Kaplan-Meier estimates. The conclusions of the study show that the adoption is more probable for girls than for boys, for Romanian than for Roma, for children without disabilities and for those children who are not in contact with their biological families. Reunification is more probable for children who are in contact with their families of origin, for children without disabilities and for families without economic difficulties. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]