Learning from Each other — Professional Gypsy Foster Parents in Hungary

Abstract

Throughout the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, a large ethnic minority group, generally known as Gypsies, has for generations suffered from severe discrimination and social ostracism. Ann Buchanan learnt, during visits to child care establishments in the region, that up to ninety per cent of children in state care were children of Gypsy origin. The tragedy is that these children have little chance of obtaining work on leaving care and, as Ágnes Diósi reports here, may not be offered any care at all.