This monograph contains nine chapters that review and discuss the empirical literature on the development of children who have been deprived of their permanent parents, many of whom are institutionalized or have been reared for a portion of their early lives in an institution, plus the international practice and policy procedures and issues that pertain to how such children should be cared for in primarily low-resource countries around the world.
Chapters include:
- Children without Permanent Parents: Research, Practice, and Policy
- Children in Institutional Care: Delayed Development and Resilience
- Development of Adopted Children with Histories of Early Adversity
- Attachment and Emotional Development in Institutional Care: Characteristics and Catch U
- Growth Failure in Institutionalized Children
- The Neurobiological Toll of Early Human Deprivation
- Sensitive Periods
- Ideal Components and Current Characteristics of Alternative Care Options for Children Outside of Parental Care in Low‐Resource Countries
- The Situation for Children Without Parental Care and Strategies for Policy Change