Kenya

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 44.86 million
  • Population under 15: 42%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 62 years
  • Human Development Index: 145 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 5.3%
  • Mean Household Composition: 3.9 members
  • Female-Headed Households: 32%
  • Early Marriage (% of girls married by 15 years): 29%

Sources: World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2014

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Mi‐Youn Yang, Kathryn Maguire‐Jack, Kathryn Showalter, Youn Kyoung Kim, Kristen Shook Slack - Child & Family Social Work,

This study examined the relationship between receipt of child care subsidies and child maltreatment investigations in a sample of low‐income mothers in Illinois, USA.

Alli Klapp - Children and Youth Services Review,

The overall purpose of the study was to investigate how two different grading systems, the norm-referenced and the criterion-referenced garaging systems influence the educational achievement for children and youths placed in out-of-home care.

Ambika Pandit - Times of India,

"A total number of 1,265 children have been reported to have died in specialised adoption agencies (SAAs) across states between April 2014 to January 31, 2019," according to this article from the Times of India.

Dennis Vicencio Blanco & Rogelio Alicor Panao - Child & Youth Services ,

Using synthesis and an integrative approach, the article analyzes laws, policies, and institutions that protect the rights and promote the welfare of orphaned children in the Philippines.

Joan Llosada-Gistau, Ferran Casas, Carme Montserrat - Applied Research in Quality of Life,

The aim of this study was to analyse subjectisuppleve well-being (SWB) among adolescents in care, considering the type of placement in greater depth and how it correlated with several explanatory variables.

Hagar,

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Jonathan D. Leipoldt, Annemiek T. Harder, Nanna S. Kayed, Hans Grietens, Tormod Rimehaug - Children and Youth Services Review,

The purpose of the study presented in this open access article was to provide an overview of the literature on associations between determinants and social climate and between social climate and outcomes in therapeutic residential youth care (TRC).

Goldfarb D, Tashjian SM, Goodman GS, Bederian-Gardner D, Hobbs SD, Cordón IM, Ogle CM, Bakanosky S, Narr RK, Chae Y, NYTD/CYTD Research Group - Journal of Interpersonal Violence,

This study tests the prediction that foster youth who perceive having more opportunity for voice, even indirectly via a representative, more favorably rate the dependency system.

Jennifer Ma, Barbara Fallon, Kenn Richard - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The objectives of this article are to: 1) estimate the rate of overrepresentation of First Nations children and youth involved in child welfare investigations in the Ontario child welfare system and, 2) determine which factors drive the overrepresentation of First Nations children in child welfare at the investigation stage compared to White children.

Kristen Cheney & Stephen Ucembe - Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention,

This chapter explicates the concept of the orphan industrial complex to argue that persistent narratives of “orphan rescue” not only commodify orphans and orphanhood itself but—counter to their stated goal—can actually spur the “production” of “orphans,” resulting in child exploitation and trafficking.