Crossing Boundaries in the Family System – Analysis of Young Carers’ Experience in the Context of Children’s Rights
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https://doi.org/10.12775/PCh.2022.018Keywords
young carers, children’s rights, family systemAbstract
The main problem of the presented analysis is the phenomenon of caretaking by children (young carers) in the family considered on the basis of the idea of children’s rights. Young carers realised the number of tasks supporting parents and the entire family system, sometimes even taking responsibility for it. Two-phased analysis was carried out here. Firstly, based on autobiographical narrative interviews, the categories of young carers’ experiences were distinguished. Next, these categories were collated with areas of children’s rights recognised by the content analysis of documents defining them. The conclusions drawn from the analysis could constitute the core of considerations on the situation of young carers as a threat to or at least a significant limitation of the realisation of children’s rights.
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