Milfrid Tonheim

1 Introduction Over the last decades, we have seen a larger cultural diversity of children and families involved with European child welfare services (Skivenes et al.

1 Introduction The state regulation of contact between children in foster care and their parents is complex and contested (Poitras et al. 2021; Ruiz-Romero et al. 2022), and research highlights the importance of supporting child–family relationship quality (Chartier and Blavier 2022; Skoglund et al. 2019).

1. Introduction I have lived in many different places […] Here (in foster care), I feel like I am at home. It is the only place I have felt at home since moving to Norway […] Of all the places, none felt like home. Not that feeling. Here, it feels like home. This is a reflection from a young person who moved into foster care after arriving in Norway as an unaccompanied refugee minor (URM).