This synthesis report, ‘Families, Family Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Key Findings’ explores how the role of families, and family policies from around the world, can contribute to meeting the SDG targets.

This article examines Australia's 'Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012' ('the Act') and recent changes.

This article explores the guardian ad litem (GAL) perspective on the main components of interprofessional collaboration (IPC).

This paper brings to fore the need to compile an accurate and comprehensive database for children living in institutional care in India.

This is a small-scale study examining the experiences of Aged-Out Unaccompanied Minors (UAMs) who transition from foster care into Direct Provision (DP) in Ireland.

This Comment argues that the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (CWA) creates an enforceable right to foster care maintenance payments under § 1983 by analyzing the CWA's text and structure and by drawing on the context of the Act's enactment and subsequent legislative history.

The chapter describes the rationale, research support, and techniques that support the application of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) to American Indian families.

This chapter provides updated information about the use of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) with young children who have experienced maltreatment.

This report is the evaluation of the pilot partnership agreement between Police Scotland and local authorities, for responses to children and young people missing from foster and residential care.

This article outlines an approach to assessing the quality of relationships between young foster children and their carers.

This article focuses on a central problem of foster care, which is that it is often not developmentally informed.

This report has two aims: (1) examine how well African governments are delivering on their promises and commitments to children and (2) provide a comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative view of the current realities and trends in the state of child wellbeing in Africa, and their implications for the future.

This volume examines typical and atypical development from birth to the preschool years and identifies what works in helping children and families at risk.

The objective of this article is to present a portrait of the baby factory phenomenon in Nigeria. The precipitating factors that fuel the trade are discussed, and suggestions for an enduring approach to combat this crime are offered.

This article examines family‐based interventions designed to increase parenting effectiveness, fathers' positive involvement, and couple relationship quality, all with the goal of enhancing children's development.

This paper presents the results of a national survey describing Maternal and child protection services (“PMI”) home visitation services and their local implantation in France.

Through a qualitative survey, this study aimed at evaluating the effect of the implementation of the French Ministry of Health's PRADO program over the Maternal and child protection services (“PMI”) structure and home visitation intervention.

The objective of this article was to report data across five public mother–baby units in Australia in order to explore similarities and distinguishing features of each model.

This report presents findings from a research project to (1) address the knowledge gap on children who are unaccompanied immigrants1 (“CUI”), with its focus on the Chicago metropolitan area, and (2) provide relevant information to stakeholders who can strengthen the systems that support these young people.

Scholarship on transnational families has regularly examined remittances that adults abroad send to children in their country of origin. This article illuminates another permutation of these processes: family members in Senegal who establish relations with and through children in France through gifts and money.

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This paper from Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4 proposes a number of key components for translating research into policy and programs: analyzing the situation, using evidence to build the case for action, developing policies, building program capacity in child welfare and early childhood development, creating a family‐based child welfare system, and developing a system of monitoring and accountability.

Utilizing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, this paper from Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4 examines critical components and current characteristics of alternative care for children in low‐resource countries.

This chapter from Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4 reviews sensitive periods in human brain development based on the literature on children raised in institutions.

This chapter from Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4 reviews the neurobiological literature on early institutionalization that may account for the psychological and neurological sequelae discussed in other chapters in this volume.