가정외보호 퇴소 청소년의 원가족과의 관계 경험 = The relationship with the family of origin of youth transitioning from out-of-home care

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship with family of origin of youth transitioning from out-of-home care. Data were collected from six youths transitioning from out-of-home care. The phenomenological approach focusing on participant`s life story was used for data analysis. The results of this study were as follows. Four categories and thirteen subcategories were drawn from the meaning units. The four categories were `broken`, `adaptation and reunion`, `broken again`, `new meaning and departure`. First, the participants separated from their parents due to poverty or divorce were reunited with their parents and appeared to continue relationship with family of origin after transitioning from out-of-home care. They were receiving various forms of support from the parents and were experiencing stable independence through this support. Second, the participants separated from their parents according to the serious child abuse or parental death had broken relationships with parents. They were independent relying on new alternative relationships not family of origin, but were experiencing somewhat unstable self-reliance. In short, participants`rela-tionships with family of origin in this study can be defined as the tightrope of love and hate. Based on these results, various support to restore the original family relationships, targeted, long-term support and legal support for serious abused or economic harm cases from parents, social support building and mandatory follow-up after transitioning from out-of-home care were discussed.