The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) is a comprehensive, multi-country study on men’s and women’s realities, practices, and attitudes with regard to gender norms, gender-equality policies, household dynamics, caregiving and fatherhood, domestic violence, sexual diversity, health, and economic stress, among other topics.
In this study from PLoS ONE, the relationship between family structure and positive adolescent sexual behaviour, measured as delay in sexual debut, was examined using the bioecological theory framed by a risk and resilience perspective. After controlling for other covariates, the study found that adolescents living with neither parent had lower odds of delaying sexual debut although results were only significant for males.
This paper from the Human Resource Management Review provides a typology that can be applied to the transnational family as a theoretical lens through which diverse forms of transnational families can be understood.
This chapter from Migration between Africa and Europe investigates family life in the context of international migration between Ghana and Europe. The chapter finds that transnational family forms, in which one or more members of the nuclear family are living abroad while the other members remain in the home or another country, are common.
In this chapter from the Handbook of migration and globalisation, the authors examine the relationship between family, globalisation and migration through the lens of care, focusing specifically on the experiences of transnational families.
The Global Migration Indicators 2018 report is a snapshot of what we know about migration today. The report reviews key trends in global migration, including sections on remittances and the migration of women and children, and highlights the relevant SDGs and Global Compact objectives.
This chapter from Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World: Global Perspectives focuses on the institutional care of children and young people deemed ‘at risk’ according to current Malaysian law on child welfare: Malaysian Child Act (2001).
This paper explores how unaccompanied refugee children from Syria made their way to destination countries and how they become unaccompanied and the consequences of being unaccompanied.
This review of secondary sources refers to information on child protection risks and violence against children in Mali, collected from 2016 to 2018.
The authors of this study investigated the incremental impact of adding a caregiver component to a life skills programme for adolescent girls, assessing girls’ exposure to violence (sexual and others) and caregivers’ gender attitudes and parenting behaviours.
