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After the fall of the Soviet Union, the world was shocked to learn that countless children were being held in unsanitary and hazardous conditions within Romanian orphanages.  This video tells of Izidor Ruckel’s experience while growing up in a Romanian orphanage, along with his eventual immigration to the U.S. where he was adopted by a family from California.

This paper examines whether policies that guide the termination of parental rights correspond to state adoption rate differences in the United States.

This editorial piece from the Journal of Global Social Welfare introduces the journal's special issue on measuring children’s care arrangements.

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with the risk of negligence in child care during the first year of rearing in adolescent and adult mothers.

El objetivo de este estudio fue determinar los factores asociados al riesgo de negligencia en el cuidado del hijo durante el primer año de crianza en madres adolescentes y adultas.

Family for Every Child is looking for a short term consultant to produce a desk based research report on the context for children in Liberia and recommend CSOs working in this area. 

Under the project United Voices for Children, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperatio

This article from The Age examines a crucial issue in the Australian child welfare system - “how to reconcile the protection of the wellbeing and development of children with the promotion of Indigenous culture and identity to avoid a repeat of the Stolen Generations.” 

In this article for the Guardian, the author writes about some of the pitfalls and potential recklessness of Western intervention in social problems in the Global South.

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact that the use of a Community Caregiver service provision model had on outcomes for children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire.