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- ItemVeerkragtigheid in die enkelma-transrasgesin(LitNet Akademies, 2020) Oosthuizen, Marita; Greeff, Abraham P.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie ondersoek is om gesinsprosesse en -kenmerke wat verband hou met veerkragtigheid in enkelma-gesinne waar ’n kind van ’n ander ras as dié van die ma aangeneem is, te identifiseer en te beskryf. As teoretiese vertrekpunt is ’n sterkteperspektief wat in die positiewe sielkunde gegrond is, gekies. McCubbin en McCubbin (2001) en Walsh (2016) se gesinsveerkragtigheidsteorieë vorm gesamentlik die raamwerk waarbinne hierdie ondersoek beplan en gedoen is. As deel van ’n verkennende navorsingsontwerp is onderhoude gevoer met ses wit vroue wat in die Wes-Kaap woonagtig was en ’n kind of kinders van ’n ander ras aangeneem het. Inligting is deur middel van semigestruktureerde onderhoude ingesamel en die inligting is met behulp van die Atlas.ti-rekenaarprogram (ATLAS.ti.v7, URL 2013) ontleed. Die volgende gesinsveerkragtigheidskenmerke het na vore gekom: Die transrasaangenome kind is goed toegerus met vaardighede om potensiële krisisse rakende sy transrasaangenome status te hanteer; die moeder is voorberei vir moederskap voor die aanneming plaasgevind het; sosiale kontak en die ondersteuning van die uitgebreide familie is vir die gesin van belang; gevestigde gesinspatrone, openlikheid oor die aanneming en die benutting van eksterne hulpbronne help ook die transrasgesin om krisissituasies beter te hanteer. Hierdie bevindinge kan van nut wees en as hulpbronne dien vir potensiële aanneemma’s ten einde hulle voor te berei vir die aanneming van ’n kind van ’n ander ras. Die bevindings verskaf ook belangrike inligting aan ondersteuningspartye (byvoorbeeld die maatskaplike werker) wat betrokke is by transrasaanneming in Suid-Afrika.
- ItemVeerkragtigheid in die enkelouer-transrasgesin(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12) Oosthuizen, Marita; Greeff, A. P.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Department of Psychology.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Families with a transracially adopted child are confronted with normal family crises, crises due to the adoption as well as challenges specific to a transracial family. When this transracial family is a single-parent family, it could be assumed that the challenges the family faces will be even more. Consequently, the need developed to investigate characteristics and family patterns which contribute to family adaptation in crises in the single-parent family where a child from a different race than the parent has been adopted. The research question in this study was: “What are resilience factors in single-parent transracial families?” The strength perspective formed the basis of this study and the theories of Walsh (2003) and McCubbin and McCubbin (1996) provided the theoretical grounding. An explorative research design was used to address the research question. Data were collected by means of semistructured interviews and conventional content analysis was performed to analyse the data by using the Atlas.ti. computer program. Interviews were conducted with six white women who adopted a child or children from a different race than themselves. These women were all single parents living in the Western Cape, South Africa. At the time of the study, the ages of these transracially adopted children ranged from three to 10 years. A biographical questionnaire and an in-depth interview with each participant were used to collect the data. The results indicated that an important resilience factor in the transracially adopted family is equipping the adopted child with specific skills to cope with crises that may result due to his/her unique situation. Effective preparation of the adoptive mother before adoption, social contact and the support of the extended family were also found to be important resilience factors. Family routines, openness about the adoption and the utilisation of external resources were identified as important sources of resilience for the single-parent transracial family. The results of this study provide important information to the potential transracially adopting parent to prepare him/herself for transracial adoption. The results of this study also provide important information to everyone involved in transracial adoption (for example the social worker) in South-Africa.