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The webinar – the fifth in the LCRN’s series on “Occupational Therapy and MCH: An Emerging Partnership to Improve Early Family Experiences and Life Course Health Development” – features Amy Lynch, PhD, OTR/L, SCFES. The webinar will examine the impact of early adversity and trauma upon the occupational development and success of children developing in an atypical environment, including the "ripple effect" across the lifespan.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the Philippines has issued a statement that it will continue to advocate for legal adoptions in the country.
In this article, the author addresses the topic of child neglect, or allegations thereof, as it relates to children and families in the Child Welfare System in the United States.
The present study employed Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore the experiences and meaning of motherhood among teen mothers in foster care in the United States.
Tristram Hunt, shadow education secretary in the UK, will be announcing a series of new measures to support children and families, including offering new “kinship rights” to children in the care of their siblings, grandparents, or other relatives.
In this opinion piece from the Huffington Post, Frank Ligtvoet writes about the cost of international adoption and how those resources might be better directed to keeping families together. The piece is particularly focused on the practice of intercountry adoption amongst the U.S. Christian community.
Syed Tashfin Chowdhury from Aljazeera reported on stealing and selling newborns from public hospitals in Bangladesh as numbers of stolen babies are on the rise. New parents describe 'nightmares' after their newborns were kidnapped.
This blog post from the Huffington Post describes what the author believes are contradictory actions and recent statements made by the Prime Minister of Australia in regards to adoption.
In this comment, published in the Houston Law Review, the author, Destinee Roman describes and assesses the practice of “re-homing” adopted children.
Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas went undercover at an orphanage in Ghana to expose abuses and corruption. This video documents his experience.