CHILD PROTECTION AS FRAGMENTED SOCIAL INSTITUTION. INTERPRETING CORPORATE PARENTING IN HUNGARIAN PRACTICE

The source of inspiration for the research topic Is state a good parent? came from ideas on the productive nature of power in the domain of specialized care in child protection, or in a more general sense in the encompassing area regarding the treatment of children. The birth of information society in the 1970’s eliminated modern ideas and engendered post-modernity. According to Bauman (2000) trust is the most significant, the most important building block in the constitution of modern society: trust in ourselves, in others and in institutions. Each form of trust is indispensable; when one of them is lost, the other two weaken and collapse in the end.