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The Child Abuse Prevention Center is seeking a new Director of Advancement to manage all aspects of fund development.
This story from the UK discusses how gangs recruit children as young as 8 years old to serve as weapons support for older gang members. These children are recruited to hold knives for gang members, and they are often asked to attack others on members’ behalf.
Next Generation Nepal is hiring for the position of in-country Country Director in Nepal. This is NGN’s most senior representative and administrator in Nepal. The post of Country Director is a diverse, exciting and challenging role for a highly skilled and dedicated candidate who can lead NGN in its current phase, as well as into a new phase of its development.
This chapter of the Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research discusses the dangers of using categories in child welfare.
The aim of this study is to evaluate a training in non-violent resistance (NVR) for foster parents who take care of a foster child (ages 6-18) with externalizing problem behavior.
This article by Marcus Roberts discusses how and why intercountry adoptions have dropped so dramatically in the recent years.
Can children forced to fight be reintegrated back into their families and communities?
In this special feature from ABCNews on orphanage volunteerism in Nepal, ABC News claims that Kathmandu is a major hub for voluntourists who are attracted to Nepal’s many orphanages and children’s homes. However, as the story points out, only 85% of children who live in Nepal’s orphanages are actually orphans. These children are housed in horrible conditions and are often abused.
The European Union and UNICEF have broadened an important regional partnership that aims to protect children from violence and better include children with disabilities into society. Since 2011, the EU and UNICEF have been working together with countries currently in the process of joining the EU, such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Turkey.
This study examines the link between Rejection Sensitivity (RS), Attachment Pattern (AP) and Socio-Emotional Adjustment (SA & EA) among adolescent's living in orphanages and those living with their parents. Adolescents (N=360) ranging between 14–18 years completed self-report measures. The findings suggest that there exists significantly positive and negative correlation as well as significant interaction between gender and living conditions among the variables RS, AP, SA and EA.