一位寄養媽媽收養自閉兒的心路歷程：從凱凱事件談起

The Struggling Procedure of One Foster Mother Adopting an Autistic Child: Reflections on the Event of Kay

江秋樺(Chiu-Hua Chiang)；林燕萩(Yen-Chiu Lin)

寄養 ； 收養 ； 凱凱事件 ； fostering ； adopting ； Event of Kay's death

雲嘉特教期刊

39期（2024 / 05 / 01）

1 - 14

繁體中文;英文

研究者（大秋）從凱凱的新聞事件談到一位寄養媽媽（小萩），從寄養到收養自閉兒的心路歷程。文中寄養童大寶的原生家庭尚未放棄親權，寄養後經證實大寶為自閉兒，屬於委託安置階段。小萩與大寶間的依附關係不亞於親生，基於現實的經濟考量，小萩樂於接受兩人目前的寄養關係，因為小萩得靠大寶的寄養費來支應大寶各方面的復健、教育與旅遊學習的費用。大秋撰寫本文旨在揭露社會一角，有著像小萩般的寄養家庭默默提供失家孩子一個暫時棲身的家。大寶有幸，能碰到視他如己出的寄養媽媽小萩；凱凱也曾在受虐致死之前，享受到周保母細心的呵護，卻何其不幸，遇到劉姓姊妹這樣心狠手辣的保母。大秋希望藉由本文釐清收養的正確法規概念，避免凱凱事件誤導社會大眾，對收養流程產生錯誤的認知；新聞指出凱凱事件重創兒福聯盟的誠信，民眾紛紛退捐，紅十字會因為疫情募款困難也直接退出寄養計畫，導致原已經營不易的寄養計畫，更顯雪上加霜。大秋藉此文呼籲社會大眾，社會上還是有像小萩這樣默默行善、有愛心的寄養媽媽，希望會有更多像小萩這樣的人，可以投入照顧兒少的寄養計畫。

The author of this paper, Lotus, was the advisor of a foster mother, Chu. The Event of Kay made Lotus recall the struggling procedure of Chu, trying hard to figure out where David would be placed eventually. Chu loved David not lesser than his biological mother and she thought of adopting David, if his father would put David to be adopted officially. So far, Chu enjoyed the fostering relationship between her and David. Chu depended on the foresting fee paid officially to raise David including his medical care, tuition fee and all other fees for food, learning and entertaining activities. The death of Kay aged one, abused by his second nanny, aroused the public attention. In contrast, David has been lucky to be fostered by Chu, even though he was diagnosed as a severe autistic child, needing medical care and all kinds of rehabilitations. This paper aimed to explore, somewhere in the society, there are fostering mothers like Chu trained officially trying hard to give cares to those children needing temporary accommodations. Kay's first nanny was willing to adopt him but, limited by the new official adopting regulations, she failed to fulfill her wish. When Kay was in the waiting list of adopting, he was transferred to the second nanny's house, where he was abused to death. This news made the public questioning why Kay could not be adopted by his first nanny, who took good care of him. By using Chu's reflections on adopting David or not, Lotus hoped to redirect the attention all of the whole society to recognize the fact, adopting is a big issue-too many tasks needing to confront, in addition to the new official adopting regulation. Lotus hoped the public donations would not be stopped or withdraw due to Kay's death. It was also hoped more families would join the line of fostering like Chu.