Diskursens konstruktioner om vilka beteenden och vilken social miljö som anses tillhöra en godkänd förälder och familj

Discourse constructions on what behavior and what social environment that is considered to belong to an approved parent and family. Discourse analysis made on some state official reports from the 1950s. The Parental Code content is based on knowledge about how parents should be in parenting based on what is represented to be the best for children. The Parental Code in 1949 was assigned the right of parents to use some level of corporal punishment in child rearing. In the mid-1950s the first reports of unauthorized punishment came in Sweden. The child welfare was assigned the responsibility to care for children who were suffering and place them in public care. In 2005, the documentary "Stolen Childhood" was broadcast and six middle-aged men expressed their time at one of Sweden s children's home where corporal punishment was used in education. The government took a decision to appoint an inquiry into abuse in social childcare and it showed that there were children who had fared badly in the protective care. The interviewed felt that they had received punishments that were far worse than the neglect that had motivated the actual treatment from the beginning. How should the home environment have been so the children never would be taken away from their parents? What was presented as risk factors for children and their adjustment in society in the 1950s discourse? How was an accepted parenting? What was the construction of parental behaviors and family social environment in the 1950s? Discourse analysis as a method provided the opportunity to use materials of state government investigations from 1950 to 1959. They handled a common subject, how behavior and social environment was constructed and it showed the production of healthy and risk factors for children. The results showed the fabrication of social environment and behavior and they were divided into sexuality, marriage, childbearing, economics, housing, work and child rearing. It showed how parents would be controlled, and by whom, and for what purpose they would be governed, and by what methods. It showed that good marriage would be without conflict, sexual intercourse should take place within marriage and at a moderate level, child-rearing should be shaped by what’s needed in the community, childbirth would be within marriage and in harmony with the conditions in the family, finances and work would be good and the accommodation would have plenty of space. If parents and families followed and lived as the construction showed in good behavior and social environment it would reduce the risk for children of being placed in children s home. The family was presented as an institution in society and the functioning of society. The family and other institutions needed supervision and care. With the help of law, support, awareness and intervention were family members affected to be in the way that was presented as the best for them. It needed to fulfill the task of creating a good future. Parents and families who had the behaviors that were presented as good was what were needed for the future and for the development of society.