Family Laws and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines all policy and laws related to families in the South, West, East and Central regions of sub-Saharan Africa.
This paper examines all policy and laws related to families in the South, West, East and Central regions of sub-Saharan Africa.
The aim of this study was to describe lifetime involvement in child protection system (CPS) in South Australia, by type of contact.
The goal of this paper was to review and critique the literature examining predictors of better-than-expected adjustment of children who have experienced institutional care.
The present protocol outlines a scoping review of research evidence to identify what works in safely reducing the number of children and young people (aged ≤18 years) entering statutory social care.
This paper examines strategies currently being implemented in early care and education (ECE) to address early childhood trauma.
Through a thematic content analysis of qualitative interviews with members of migrants’ families, this article illustrates that in the context of internal labour migration, family responsibilities shift in ways that make unemployed grandmothers in South Africa who do not receive the Old Age Grant vulnerable.
The purpose of the review, developed by International Child Development Initiatives, was to present an overview of (as much as possible) evidence-based promising practices in Family Strengthening interventions in Cambodia, implemented by FCF|REACT partners.
This study from Family Care First (FCF) and Responsive and Effective Child Welfare Systems Transformation (REACT) utilized a mixed method approach to data gathering and analysis to understand the effects of gender, identity, and institutional practices on the well-being of children in alternative care in Cambodia.
This media briefing from Oxfam describes the Italian reception system for unaccompanied minors which "has turned out to be inadequate for protecting lone refugee and migrant children and their rights," according to the report.
This report presents policy recommendations to improve the U.S. child welfare system, made by young adult interns who participated in the Foster Youth Internship Program® (FYI), "a highly esteemed congressional internship for young adults who have spent their formative years in U.S. foster care."