“Non-parents” or how to become the parent of an absent child

Varia
By Vanessa Stettinger
English

Children have a central place in contemporary French society. Becoming a parent is a desired status, especially for those who do not benefit from other sources of recognition. What happens to parents whose child is placed in a home soon after birth? Based on ethnographic research, this article aims to describe how state-implementation of parenthood norms can produce “non-parents,” and the way in which these “non-parents” try to escape their fate in order to become parents.

Keywords

  • Non-parent
  • “Bad” parent
  • Parenthood
  • Child placed
  • Daily
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