Zimbabwe

Demographic Data:

  • Total Population: 15,245,855
  • Population under 15: 41.6%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 57.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 155 out of 188 
  • World Bank Status: Low Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 16.7%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.1 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 44.6%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, DHS 2010-11

 

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Alexandru Neagoe, Doina Larisa Maria Neag, Daniel Lucheș - PLoS ONE,

This paper explores the benefits, challenges and dilemmas involved in the job of professional (i.e. state-supported) foster carer in Romania–a country where the issue of child protection has drawn a great deal of international attention over the last thirty years.

Bridget Colacchio Wesley, Julia Pryce, Gina M. Samuels - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal,

This article explores child welfare professionals' understandings of well-being, as well as barriers and facilitators to well-being in their practice experience.

Rise,

This series—which begins with a focus on schools— exposes the harm of punishing parents instead of addressing the root causes of child welfare involvement in the U.S.

PBS News Hour,

This video from PBS News Hour features an interview with Dr. Alan Shapiro, a clinical professor in pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and co-founder of Terra Firma, who discusses the emotional and physical harms of detention on migrant children in the US.

Lumos,

This report from Lumos defines the global problem of institutionalization of children - including the factors that drive it and the harmful impacts it has on children's physical and cognitive development - and proposes global solutions in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), in partnership with the Oman Ministry of Social Development, Children First Association, Sultan Qaboos University, UNICEF, and the ARAB-CAN Society,

The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), in partnership with the Oman Ministry of Social Development, Children First Association, Sultan Qaboos University, United Nation’s Children’s Fund  (UNICEF), and the ARAB-CAN Society, proudly present the 2019 ISPCAN Congress in Oman.

CELCIS & Global Implementation Society ,

Taking place from 15 - 17 September 2019, this international conference will attract participants from many disciplines, sectors, and parts of the world who all share a passion for what the science and practice of implementation offers in making real change and improvement to people’s lives and services.

Benjamin de Haan, Joseph A. Mienko, J. Mark Eddy - Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents,

This article presents the perspectives of three authors - who have collective experience in administration, practice, and research in both systems - on the interaction between the adult corrections system and the child welfare system in the USA and the implications of this interaction for children with incarcerated parents.

Bassam Yousef Ibrahim Banat, Sameer Shqair, & Iskandar Andon - Global Journal of Health Science,

This study addressed foundling and abandoned children in the Palestinian society as a multi-dimensional phenomenon.

Alicia-Dorothy Mornington & Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec - Philosophy and Child Poverty,

This chapter argues that poverty per se should never constitute the basis for removing children from their parents and seeks to understand the British situation, in order to see how poverty is treated in relation to child welfare in Britain.