Dumaret AC, Rosset DJ, Donati P, Torossian V, Boucher N; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1992 Jul 19-24; 8: D387 (abstract no. PoD 5004).
INSERM-ADREMIH, Montrouge.
OBJECTIVES: Determine the impact of socio-familial characteristics and of the illness of the parents on child care. The objective is to identify risk factors that would lead to the separation of the children from their family. METHODS: Observation of a cohort of children born to HIV+ mothers, whose parents live in Paris. Data are collected in 4 hospitals, and with the Child Welfare Department and the non governmental organizations. Interviews have been conducted with parents, foster and social workers. RESULTS: On greater than 300 children. 24% are over the age of 4, 27% are infected. 10% of the mothers have AIDS and 6% died (fathers: 5% and 10%). The child care systems depend on the cultural background and the social integration of the parents. Half of the children are only children, for the others, brothers or sisters are half in France, half abroad. 25% no longer live with their parents (10% in extended family or with friends and 15% are under care): risk factors are more frequent among these families (single parent, drug addiction, delinquency...). The child's environment is function of the mother's illness. Child care methods are not related to the fact that the child is infected or not. CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary to help all the parents and specially monoparental families to prepare for the future and to accompany foster parents.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Child
- Child Care
- Child Rearing
- Child Welfare
- Child of Impaired Parents
- Family
- Family Health
- France
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Humans
- Morbidity
- Mothers
- Parents
- Paris
- Risk Factors
- Single Parent
- Social Work
Other ID:
UI: 102200226
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