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The current study explores (a) a moderation model of adoption status on the association between attachment representations (secure, dismissing, preoccupied, and disorganized) and behavioural problems and (b) a moderation model of adoption status on the association between emotion regulation processes (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) and behavioural problems.

The Government of Yukon, Canada is introducing a new three-year pilot project to reunite families. 

This column briefly explains child abandonment and the use of childcare homes for abandoned children in the Zambian context. The author notes that formal foster care is not a popular mode of alternative care in Zambia and that awareness-raising would help to increase its use in the country.

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist for Libya. 

This opinion piece from Inquire explains how voluntourism in orphanages does more harm than good. 

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist for South Sudan. 

Lumos is seeking an International Children’s Services Adviser to be part of a brand new team established within its GTAS unit who will educate, empower and engage our internal programme teams and external stakeholders on DI through training, technical advice and toolkits.

In this article and accompanying radio piece, NPR sheds light on the issues facing children who have lost one or both parents as a result of an ISIS attack in Mosul, Iraq.

In this study, 30 primary school aged UK adoptees without a history of institutionalisation completed an assessment of their intellectual, executive functioning and social communication abilities.

This review aims to systematically review methodological challenges and limitations of interventions designed to help carers meet the needs of children in alternative care, to provide an analysis of the current state of the evidence base for these interventions.