요보호아동의 복리 관점에서 본 가정위탁제도 일고(一考) = A Study on the Foster Care System to Help the Underprivileged Children in the Aspect of Their Welfare

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Foster Care System, originated from the modern parentage law which is based on `the best interest of child` as fundamental principle, is designed to provide the underprivileged children with better home surroundings, and usually used as supplementary role for adoption system or its alternative. However, unlike the other countries, the group care system is more prevalent in Korea rather than this system for the underprivileged children. So this paper examines its several characteristics and some problems for the practical use. In Chapter 2, the concept of the foster care, the legislations of the other countries, and the present state in Korea are examined as a whole. In Chapter 3, the issues of the visitation for a foster child, the rights and obligations between a custodian and a foster parent, and the restrictions in the exercise of parental authority are examined as some issues relating to the foster care system. Finally, Chapter 4 provides the summarization of this paper, and shows the desirable ways for the development of the foster care system in the future. It is required to establish the systematic standard of the foster care system for activation. Moreover, `the best interest of child` principle should be the standard in legislation for specific details and it will be important to establish the definite relations among the parties a custodian, a foster care parent, and a local autonomous entity, etc on the basis of guardian role of the family court.