Challenges to the development of attachment relationships faced by young children in foster and adoptive care

Mary Dozier, Michael Rutter - The Handbook of Attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications

In this chapter of the Handbook of Attachment, the authors discuss young children in foster care, as well as those adopted both nationally and internationally.

Romania's last orphanages

The Economist

This video from the Economist explores the history of institutionalization in Romania and the efforts now underway to transition to family-based care and small group homes for children.

Child Exploitation and Tourism at the Example of Orphanage Tourism: A Situation Analysis on the Current Situation of Orphanage Tourism in Myanmar Including a Comparison of Myanmar and Cambodia

Julia Hanel, Masters Thesis for Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development

This thesis focused on the two questions ‘What is the current situation on orphanage tourism in Myanmar?’ and ‘What are the causes of orphanage tourism?’.

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Inequalities in US Child Protection: The Case of Sex Trafficked Youth

Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, Jason Ostrander, and Megan Feely - Social Sciences

This article demonstrates how structural social work theory and critical consciousness development can be used to help facilitate a transition from a deficit model approach to an inequities perspective in a child welfare system that was working to improve the identification of and services for domestic minor sex trafficked youth (DMST).

A scoping study of Indigenous child welfare: The long emergency and preparations for the next seven generations

Wendy Haight, Cary Waubanascum, David Glessener, Scott Marsalis - Children and Youth Services Review

This scoping study yielded 37 empirical studies published in peer-reviewed journals addressing one of the most pressing, sensitive, and controversial issues facing child welfare policymakers and practitioners today: the dramatic overrepresentation of Indigenous families in North American public child welfare systems.