Psychosocial content of the challenges and vulnerability of the contemporary family in Romania

Abstract

In recent decades, European families have undergone extraordinary changes that have resulted in a variety of forms and family relationships. Even though, among families with minor children, the married couple with one or two children is still the most common form of family, today's children are raised in many different family environments. It is observed that in various spheres of society the influence of vulnerabilities on families in the future. Highlighting the psychosocial content of the contemporary family in Romania, it brought to the fore the challenges and vulnerabilities that they face today, in its evolution. The family, like any institution, has its functions and it is expected that, despite social changes, they will be fulfilled both for society and for the physical subsistence of its members. Over time, under the influence of external or internal factors, disturbances in one function affect the other functions to a greater or lesser extent. Changes are taking place throughout the world at the level of family models and implicitly in the exercise of their functions, Romania not being bypassed by these tendencies manifested on a global scale. Socio-ecological factors, such as poverty, psychosocial services and spending on social services, could influence the challenges facing vulnerable families. This paper examines the extent to which socio-economic vulnerability, psychosocial care consultations and preventive social services expenditures influence the reunification of children in care outside the home. These findings have implications for decision-makers, funding agencies and child protection agencies to improve jurisdictional resources to reduce the socio-economic vulnerabilities of family reunification