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India
childrens_living_arrangement
%
Country
NO SOURCE GIVEN
81.4%
Living with Both Parents
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with both parents, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
15.4%
Living with One Parent
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with mother, father alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with mother, father dead, Total for children < 18; Children living with father, mother alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with father, mother dead, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
3.2%
Living with Neither Parent
DHS 2019-2021
i
Children living with neither parent, both alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, mother alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, father alive, Total for children < 18; Children living with neither parent, both dead, Total for children < 18; IA2020DHS: International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai - 2019-21
%
Effective
NO SOURCE GIVEN
children_living_without_bio
79%
Both Parents Alive
DHS 2015-2016
12%
One Parent Dead
DHS 2015-2016
9%
Both Parents Dead
DHS 2015-2016
95.3%
Children with Both Parents Alive
DHS
4.3%
Children with One Parent Alive
DHS
0.3%
Children with Both Parents Dead
DHS
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Most children living in India's residential care institutions have a family; over the past six months, actors have come together to reform the child care system in Odisha state away from orphanages and toward family-based care.
This study observed the physical growth and cognitive development in institutionalized toddlers in India, finding profound developmental delays in the sample group.
Juvenile homes and other care insitutions discussed at plenary session of the State Conference on Juvenile Justice and Capacity Building in Bhopal, India, calling for the development of mechanisms in foster care and sponsorship due to the lacking capacity for institutions to care for children.
Thousands of children arrive at Kokata's Sealdah Station alone each year; unknown hundreds of those children are abducted and trafficked into slavery or the sex trade.
Since 2011, the government of Indian state Tamil Nadu has closed 843 unregistered child care institutions, with 1,300 registered homes still remaining.
Activists push for India’s government to move forward with long-awaited anti-trafficking legislation.
A police investigation found 28 children trafficked into an orphanage in Kerala, India, prompting the formation of an investigative task force to verify the identities and credentials of children living in institutions.
When three missing children living in an Bengaluru orphanage were brought to register for Aadhaar cards (India's resident identification card), it was discovered they already had cards issued in their names. Authorities were able to track their parents using the card, and the children were reunited with their families.
The present research investigated a study on self - esteem and academic performance of family reared and institutionalized orphan children.
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This six part video series follows Jyothi Svahn, who, believing she was 'stolen' and trafficked as an 'orphan', goes on a multi-country hunt for her birth family - and uncovers an international adoption industry built on lies, greed and heartbreak.
