Many ethnoreligious-minority foster children in several western countries, including the Netherlands, are placed and permanently live with ethnically and religiously non-matched foster families (i.e., in trans-religious foster care). We examine whether and which moral dilemmas exist around the issue of how religion should be weighted in trans-religious foster care to provide ethnoreligious-minority foster children with healthy identity development. We applied a thematic analysis to 17 qualitative interviews (seven foster parent/foster child dyads and three foster parents) taken from two pre-existing datasets. We retrieved five moral dilemmas in trans-religious foster care placements, which are discussed in relation to the following ethical arguments: (1) pressure from birth parents and parents of foster children to abide by their religious praxis; (2) objections of the foster family to the faith of the birth family; (3) a switch to the faith of the foster family by the foster child; (4) challenges to the religious identity searches of foster children due to ethnoreligious boundary drawing between majority and minority groups; and (5) the impact of religious traditions on the bodily integrity of foster children. We argue that it is in the best interest of foster children to have a foster family who, when making (some) religious choices on their behalf, is sensitive to the particular child and their developing identity with regard to their religious ideas and beliefs. Foster families need support regarding religious reflection and religious self-determinism in their foster children.

在包括荷兰在内的几个西方国家，许多少数民族的寄养儿童被安置并永久居住在种族和宗教不匹配的寄养家庭中（即，在跨宗教寄养中））。我们研究了在跨宗教寄养中应该如何权衡宗教以为少数族裔寄养儿童提供健康的身份发展这一问题是否存在以及存在哪些道德困境。我们对来自两个预先存在的数据集的 17 个定性访谈（七个养父母/养子女和三个养父母）进行了主题分析。我们检索到跨宗教寄养安置中的五个道德困境，这些困境与以下伦理论点有关：（1）来自亲生父母和寄养儿童父母的压力，要求他们遵守宗教习俗；（二）寄养家庭对亲生家庭的信仰有异议；(3) 寄养儿童改信寄养家庭的；(4) 由于多数和少数群体之间的种族宗教界限，对寄养儿童的宗教身份搜索提出了挑战；(5) 宗教传统对寄养儿童身体完整性的影响。我们认为，寄养家庭在代表他们做出（某些）宗教选择时，对特定儿童及其在宗教观念和信仰方面的发展身份敏感，这符合寄养儿童的最佳利益。寄养家庭需要有关其寄养儿童的宗教反思和宗教自决的支持。在代表他们做出（某些）宗教选择时，对特定儿童及其在宗教观念和信仰方面的发展身份敏感。寄养家庭需要有关其寄养儿童的宗教反思和宗教自决的支持。在代表他们做出（某些）宗教选择时，对特定儿童及其在宗教观念和信仰方面的发展身份敏感。寄养家庭需要有关其寄养儿童的宗教反思和宗教自决的支持。