Putting Children at the Centre of Africa's Prevention and Response Strategies to COVID-19: A Call to Action

African Child Policy Forum

This call to action outlines several decisive and coordinated measures that all stakeholders are urged to take to ensure that children and families are protected from the immediate and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.

Brain Matters: Putting the First Years First

Carlota Nelson, Genesis Foundation

Through interviews with cutting edge researchers, scientists, economists, families and educators, this film explores the so called “miracle years”, a critical period of our lives that no one remembers, in a profound new way – emphasizing how the first few years are the greatest opportunity we have to give children the best start in life.

International adoption of cleft lip and palate children: Attachment, behavior problems, and parental sensitivity

Valérie Losier, Chantal Cyra, Karine Dubois-Comtois - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

This study examined parent-child relationship variables (child attachment, parental sensitivity, and prior parenting experience) and child behavior problems in parents and their international adopted children with and without a cleft lip and palate.