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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Joel Rose - NPR,

According to this article from NPR, pediatricians in South Texas, in the US near the border with Mexico, became concerned with the increasing number of young children being separated from their families and placed in detention centers and raised the alarm to Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, James Bolton, Can Liu, Holly Wilcox, Leslie L. Roosf, Anders Hjern - Journal of Affective Disorders,

This study aimed to determine whether parents with two generations of involvement in out-of-home care (themselves as children, and their own children) are at increased risk of death by suicide than parents with no involvement or parents with one generation of involvement in out-of-home care.

Karen Stansberry Beard, Stanley E. Gates, II - Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership,

This case study follows a foster teen's matriculation through high school and the challenges she faces while trying to achieve her dream of going to college.

Tuhinul Islam & Leon Fulcher - The CYC-Net Press,

This volume offers glimpses of extended family care as well as residential child and youth care in 25 countries never gathered together before in one collection.

RELAF (Latin American Foster Care Network),

RELAF (Latin American Foster Care Network) is looking for a fundraising officer to work from its office in Mexico or remotely.

Susan Collings, Margaret Spencer, Angela Dew & Leanne Dowse - Australian Journal of Human Rights ,

In this study, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with parents with intellectual disability who accessed a specialist advocacy programme in New South Wales, Australia. Thematic analysis was used to identify the influence of advocacy on parents’ experiences.

Malaka Gharib - NPR,

This article from NPR explores paid paternity leave policies around the world.

Casey L Chaviano, Lenore M McWey, Cassandra G Lettenberger-Klein, Amy M Claridge, Armeda S Wojciak, Haley V Pettigrew - Journal of Social Work,

This paper presents findings from a study in which semistructured interviews were conducted with 33 parents court ordered to participate in a parent education group due to involvement with the child welfare system.

Jennifer Beard, , Anne Skalicky, Busisiwe Nkosi, Tom Zhuwau, Mandisa Cakwe, Jonathon Simon, Mary Bachman DeSilva - Global Health Promotion,

This narrative documents the experience of researchers with the objective of documenting lessons learned in the Amajuba Child Health and Wellbeing Research Project, a collaboration between researchers from two universities and a community in South Africa which measured the impact of orphaning due to HIV/AIDS on South African households between 2004 and 2007.

CBS News,

U.S. Catholic bishops delivered a statement at a recent assembly condemning the US policy of separating children from their parents who are entering the country at the US border with Mexico, according to this article from CBS News.