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“vulnerable families” refers to familial living situations that are considered problematic, with a particular need for socially responsible, professionally provided support. This means of categorising families is extremely ambivalent, indicating not only a need for society to support forms of family life and family achievements, but also a particular need to protect children growing up within the family. It also has implications for an understanding of interventions geared to the riskiness of family living situations and their standardisation, an understanding that risks losing sight of families’ variety and individual peculiarities. Families in need of support have a fundamental right for their individuality and parenthood to be recognised. A detailed case analysis of a social worker who is working with a family in which a child’s wellbeing is at risk showshow transferring standardising ideas about the family can damage that basic right. The article thus calls for the category of vulnerability to be applied to families with reflection on the specific case and on implicit normative leanings.  \nKeywords: vulnerability, child protection, family image, family concept, social work, family support  \n1 *Corresponding Author. Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Deutschland; petra.bauer@uni[tuebingen.de](tuebingen.de).  \n2 University of Gießen, Deutschland.  \n»Ranljive družine« – refleksija o zapleteni/težavniopredelitvi  \nPetra Bauer in Christine Wiezorek  \n• Termin »ranljive družine« se nanaša na družinskobivanjske situacijetistih družin, ki so ocenjene kot problematične; te terjajo družbeno odgovorno in strokovno utemeljeno podporo. To pomeni, da je kategoriziranje takšnih družin samo po sebi ambivalentno, saj hkrati kaže na potrebo po strokovno odgovornih in hkrati celovitih podporah takšnim družinam, obenem pa tudi potrebo po subtilnem prepoznavanju njihovih dosežkov. Ob tem je hkrati treba primerno zaščititi otroke, kiodraščajo v okviru takšne družine. Opredeljevanje družin kot ranljivihima prav tako posledice za razumevanje strokovnih posegov; ti morajobiti prilagojeni tveganosti življenjskih razmer družine, hkrati pa nekaterim njenim splošnim značilnostim, pri čemer se je dobro zavedati, da lahko spregledamo raznolikost družin in tudi njihove individualne posebnosti. Ta podrobna vsebinska analiza poteka dela socialne delavke, ki dela z družino, v kateri je ogrožena blaginja otroka, kaže, kakolahko prenašanje posplošenih idej o družini ogrozi to osnovno pravico. Prispevek zato poziva, da se uporaba opredelitve »ranljivost« opre narazmislek o posameznem primeru družine in implicitna normativna pričakovanja.  \nKljučne besede: ranljivost, varstvo otrok, družinska podoba, družinskikoncept, socialno delo, družinska podpora  \nIntroduction  \nThe term “vulnerable families” refers to families ascribed a particular need for support. In German, the categories that relate to vulnerable families, or that are translated as “vulnerable families”, extend from “sozial schwach”,“gefährdet”,“bedürftig” and benachteiligt”(socially weak, at risk, in need and disadvantaged), to “verletzlich”,“in Not geraten” and “hilfsbedürftig”(vulnerable, in difficulty and requiring support). Here, the category of vulnerability is aimed in different ways at the family’s responsibility for caring for and raising children, as well as at how family members support and care for one another. This makes it clear that, in the conditions of our changing modern society, the family can evidently not (or can no longer) fulfil its socialising duties unquestioningly and as a matter of course. As a whole, the family thus comes across as particularly vulnerable or at risk with regard to its social functions.3 Categorisations of “social weakness”, neediness, vulnerability, disadvantage or “children at risk” are used in various ways to identify deficits that society nee","cbCaioAudkzaOK47","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioAudkzaOK47","pdf",150771,18,"English","# Introduction\n## Ambivalence of the “vulnerable families” category\n## Links to child protection and children’s rights discourses\n## Institutional strategies and early support systems","[{\"question\":\"What does the term “vulnerable families” refer to in the text?\",\"answer\":\"It refers to family living situations considered problematic and assumed to require socially responsible, professionally provided support, including special attention to the protection of children growing up in such families.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is the categorisation of families as “vulnerable” described as ambivalent?\",\"answer\":\"It can support society’s need to back family life and protect children, but it may also carry implicit normative assumptions and can obscure families’ variety and individual characteristics.\"},{\"question\":\"How can standardising ideas about the family affect the rights of families?\",\"answer\":\"A detailed case analysis shows that transferring standardising concepts about a family can damage families’ basic right to have their individuality and parenthood recognised.\"}]","Vulnerable Families - Reflections on a Difficult Category | PDF",45]