Fact Sheet: Children in Residential Care Institutions

ReThink Orphanages

This fact sheet from ReThink Orphanages presents quick facts about residential care for children around the world and outlines the definition of residential care, the drivers of children's placement into residential care, the phenomenon of orphanage tourism and voluntourism, the harms of institutionalization on children, the rights of children in residential care, and general recommendations for reducing the use of institutional care and strengthening families around the globe.

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