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This document includes the Minimum Standards on Alternative Care for Children set out by the Government of Cambodia, including both the Minimum Standards for Residential Care for Children and the Minimum Standards on Alternative Care for Children in the Community.
Investigation of intercountry adoption agencies on the internet and their compliance with the UNCRC.
Explores causal relationship between increased international adoption and increase in institutional care of children in Europe.
A comparative study on the ethical responsibility of receiving countries of intercountry adoption.
In this chapter of the Handbook of Attachment, the authors discuss young children in foster care, as well as those adopted both nationally and internationally.
In this commentary, Kevin Browne and Shihning Chou focus on the issues raised by the critical responses to their article in Adoption & Fostering.
The study reported by Shihning Chou and Kevin Browne explored the link between institutional care for young children and international adoption, using a survey of 33 European countries. The evidence suggests that, rather than reduce the number of children in institutions, international adoption may contribute to the continuation of this harmful practice. A child rights-based approach to providing alternative care for children separated from their parents is proposed.
Discusses adoption as a child protection mechanism in the context of the Draft UN Guidelines on Alternative Care
Examines the work of UNICEF Sudan and its partners in addressing the issue of abandonment of babies, institutional care, and the process undertaken since 2003 to develop alternative family care programmes.
Review of various topics surrounding the area of adoption.