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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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A recent police investigation in Baramati, India has revealed that a local girls’ orphanage has been running a child marriage racket, according to this article from Pune Mirror.
30 children from West Bengal, India were recently “rescued” by police during a child labour raid in the Old City. The children are now being lodged at a rescue home “with little hope of returning to their native place” as they await a First Information Report (FIR) to be issued, according to the article.
The ultimate message of a recent national adoption meeting in India was that all stakeholders should do their utmost to ensure the best interests of children are given priority and first consideration in all matters related to adoption, according to the article.
In January and February of 2015, in order to create an evidence-based foundation on which to design community-oriented family preservation services, FCI conducted a rapid assessment survey of 366 Palanhar Yojana beneficiary families in the city of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
This study sought to understand gender differences in potentially traumatic events (PTEs) in orphaned and separated children in 5 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC): Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Tanzania.
Foster Care India is launching a Manifesto to help change the way that over 1.2 billion people look after and protect children in India.
This study compares the development of children living in orphanages with that of children living in slums with their biological parents in Odisha, India.
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These Guidelines govern the adoption procedure of orphan, abandoned and surrendered children in India, replacing the Guidelines Governing the Adoption of Children, 2011.
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These Guidelines for Foster care aim to protect the well-being of children in India who are deprived of family care or who are at risk of being so.
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This paper explores the impact of temporary labour migration of parent(s) on school attendance of children between 6–14 years and their dropping out from school through an analysis of cases from both ends of the migration stream in India - children accompanying their migrant parents and children left behind.
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