Nigeria

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 173,620,000
  • Population under 15: 46%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 52.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 152 out of 187
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 3.2%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.6 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 19%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 49%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, UNAIDS, DHS 2013

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Residential Treatment for Children and Youth,

This special issue seeks to examine children’s perceptions of safety who reside in out-of-home care.

Annamária Neag - Media and Communication,

This article presents the use of bespoke, artisanal board games in cross-national interview settings with unaccompanied refugee children.

Sutasinee Seeprapitkoon & Wariya Lamlert- Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Surin Rajabhat University,

This article aims to study the legal measures that Thailand should take to solve the problem of abandoned children in unsafe places.

Matthew A. Jay and Louise McGrath-Lone - Systematic Reviews,

This open access systematic review aimed to appraise the extant research evidence from longitudinal studies and answer the question: how do educational outcomes differ between children in contact with Children’s Social Care (CSC) and the general population in the UK?

Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Lyndsey Carlson, Stephanie Hutton, Helena Priest, Yvonne Melia - Child & Family Social Work,

This review aimed to identify, appraise, and synthesize published literature concerned with the reunification of looked‐after children with their birth parents in the United Kingdom

Ellen Syrstad & Tor Slettebø - Child & Family Social Work,

This article elucidates the challenges parents face when they lose the care of their children and their experiences of family counselling as a support service in Norway.

Anna E. Austin, Nisha C. Gottfredson, Adam J. Zolotor, Carolyn T. Halpern, Stephen W. Marshall, Rebecca B. Naumann, Meghan E. Shanahan - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study aimed to identify longitudinal trajectory classes of child protective services (CPS) contact among Alaska Native/American Indian (AN/AI) and non-Native children and examine preconception and prenatal risk factors associated with identified classes.

Linda O’Neill, Neil Harrison, Nadine Fowler, Graham Connelly - CELCIS,

The research presented in this report aimed to broaden and deepen understanding of the barriers and enablers that care experienced students encounter in going to, being at and staying at college and university in Scotland.

Laila Khondkar - The Daily Star,

In this opinion piece for The Daily Star, Laila Khondkar - Head of Advocacy and Policy-Child Protection at Save the Children International - explains why donating money to orphanages, though well-intentioned, may cause more harm than good.