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India
childrens_living_arrangement
%
Country
NO SOURCE GIVEN
81.4%
Living with Both Parents
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with both parents, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
15.4%
Living with One Parent
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with mother, father alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with mother, father dead, Total for children < 18; Children living with father, mother alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with father, mother dead, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
3.2%
Living with Neither Parent
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with neither parent, both alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, mother alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, father alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, both dead, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
%
Effective
NO SOURCE GIVEN
children_living_without_bio
79%
Both Parents Alive
DHS 2015-2016
12%
One Parent Dead
DHS 2015-2016
9%
Both Parents Dead
DHS 2015-2016
95.3%
Children with Both Parents Alive
DHS
4.3%
Children with One Parent Alive
DHS
0.3%
Children with Both Parents Dead
DHS
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The present study report is based on data collected through the National Mapping Exercise in India covering all child care institutions (CCIs)/Homes except 34 CCIs/Homes in Uttar Pradesh. The details of scenario captured by these statistics are expected to provide necessary guidance to all stakeholders regarding improvements required in policy formulation and implementation in future.
This National Mapping Exercise covering all Child Care Institutions(CCIs)/Homes in the country, except 34 CCIs/Homes in Uttar Pradesh, sheds light on the functioning of CCIs/Homes across the country, in the context of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. The findings of this report are expected to provide necessary guidance to all stakeholders regarding improvements required in policy formulation and implementation in future.
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This 10th issue of the Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond (ICEB) journal, released in September 2018, is a Special Focus issue on ‘Aftercare.’
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Children living at an unauthorised orphanage in Tirumullaivoyal, India have come forward with allegations of sexual and physical assault, naming four people, including the owners of the orphanage, as their abusers, according to this article from the Hindu.
This paper brings to fore the need to compile an accurate and comprehensive database for children living in institutional care in India.
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Officials uncovered "deplorable" conditions and sexual assault at a children's care home in Bihar, India, according to this article from BBC News.
The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status of children residing at an orphanage.
The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge and practices regarding menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls residing in selected orphanages of Haryana.
"A woman working at Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has been arrested for allegedly selling a 14-day-old baby," according to this article from BBC News.
India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), in its efforts to "monitor the implementation of the Juvenile Justice (care and protection) Act of 2015," has compiled a report enumerating the number of children in child care homes and institutions throughout the country, according to this article from the Telegraph India.