Study finds immigrants and native Finns treated differently in foster care cases

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Study finds immigrants and native Finns treated differently in foster care cases
Finns’ problems often ascribed to fatigue, immigrants’ problems to lack of parenting skills

A fresh study has found that Finnish administrative courts treat immigrant families and native Finns differently in cases involving decisions on placing children in foster care.
Initial results of the yet-to-be released doctoral thesis of Tampere University social scientist Johanna Hiitola were presented at a child welfare seminar in MIkkeli on Wednesday.
In her study Hiitola examined documents related to decisions in 343 cases in administrative court involving involuntary foster care in 2008. She found clear differences in how the matters of native Finnish and immigrant families were handled.