Children Affected by Poverty and Social Exclusion

Around the world, poverty and social exclusion are driving factors behind the placement of children into alternative care.  Families give up their children because they are too poor to care for them, or they feel that it is the best way to help them to access basic services such as education and health care. Discrimination and cultural taboos mean that girls, children with disabilities, ethnic minorities, children with HIV/AIDS and children born out of wedlock, make up a disproportionate number of children abandoned into alternative care.

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Ellen E. Pinderhughes - The Future of Adoption: Beyond Safety to Well-Being,

This paper discusses critical tasks facing adoptive parents of transracially adopted persons (TRAs), what we know about parents’ role and children’s outcomes.

Ministry of Woman and Child Affairs and Dry Zone Development Department of Probation and Child Care Services,

Sri Lanka's National Policy on the Alternative Care of Children outlines a comprehensive range of alternative care options and encourages the reforming of all formal structures that provide at-home and out­-of-home services for children deprived of care and protection or at risk of being so. This policy also extends to children under care of the Juvenile Justice System. It provides policy solutions to programming for children at risk of family separation and facing deprivations such as child abuse, neglect, child labor, poverty, addiction, imprisonment, human trafficking, mental and physical disabilities, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, orphanhood, abandonment and displacement etc. The policy also takes into consideration and encompasses provisions to children who are forced to live and work on streets.

University of Victoria,

This snapshot provides a brief overview of research examining culturally attuned ways to assess risk so that Indigenous children in Australia can be safely supported.

David Pimentel - Oklahoma Law Review,

This article from the Oklahoma Law Review explores the US child welfare system and the practice of family separation of poor families.

Kathleen Belanger, Ruth Mcroy, Joe Haynes - The Future of Adoption: Beyond Safety to Well-Being,

This paper describes two successful models in which African American families both self-recruited, and were recruited by agencies seeking to place African American children.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation,

This report highlights more than 70 child welfare agencies across the United States that partnered with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s All Children - All Families project to improve the services they provide to the LGBTQ community, including children in foster care and prospective foster and adoptive parents.

Robert C. Odoemene, Orizu Ideobodo Nwafor & James Anekwe - African Journal of Social and Behavioural Sciences (AJSBS) ,

This study investigates and assesses the experiences of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) who live with poverty, insecurity and social stigmatization in Owerri due largely to reasons of loss of parent(s) or being born by parents who are not there to take responsibilities for them. The purpose of the study is to inform and reform social policy by providing a better understanding of the suffering of orphans in our society.

Sarah Font & Marina H. Potter - Sociological Inquiry,

The authors of this article examined social and economic resources in the environments of children involved with child protective services and their associations with children's cognitive performance.

UNICEF Cambodia,

This study examines child protection risks faced by preschool age children (3-5 years old) and adolescents (10-14 years old) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and determines the interconnectivity between such risks and education.

UNICEF Cambodia,

This study examines child protection risks faced by preschool age children (3-5 years old) and adolescents (10-14 years old) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and determines the interconnectivity between such risks and education.