Adaptation and Socialization of Social Orphans in Kyrgyzstan
This article presents analyses of the main causes of the increase in the number of social orphans in Kyrgyzstan.
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Kinship capital: young mothers, kinship networks and support in urban South Africa
This paper explores kinship and other networks of support for young mothers and their babies after an unintended, ex-nuptial pregnancy in a resource-poor urban setting.
Behavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development : Experimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-Income Setting
This paper disentangles the effects of behavioral change promotion from cash transfers to poor households through an experiment embedded in a government program in Niger.
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Vulnerability of children in Botswana during COVID-19
This article explores the impacts of COVID-19 on children in Botswana, including an increase in the number of child sexual abuse cases, and highlights the need for a clear road map on the prevention and response of the child protection system in Botswana.
Issues Of Improving The Institution Of Placing Children Deprived Of Parental Care In Uzbekistan
This article discusses the issues of adoption, foster care and the appointment of guardians and trustees, as well as issues related to the upbringing of children deprived of parental care, innovations in family law and the placement of children deprived of parental care in Uzbekistan.
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Family Reunification Decision-Making in Dutch Family Foster Care
The present study uses concept mapping as an exploratory method, to identify themes that seem to be used by two groups of professionals in their judgement and decision making on reunification.
U.S. Border Expulsions Further Jeopardize Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Minors in the Time of COVID-19
The author of this article argues that "by authorizing the rapid expulsion of vulnerable persons despite limited epidemiological justification as well as clear legal alternatives, the order stands as a gross violation of the United States’ historical policy to welcome and protect those seeking refuge at our borders."
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Conclusions: The Processes of Producing Kinship and the State in Residential Care
The concluding chapter of Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary draws together the main findings of the author's research into the changing relationships and kinship ties of children who lived in state residential care in socialist Hungary.
Care in the Children’s Home and Wider Circles of Belonging
This chapter from Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary centres on relationships outside the family, namely to carers, teachers, villagers and peers, as well as belonging to an ethnic community.
The Continuing Family Relations of Children in Care
The various examples in this chapter from Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary show that children in care continued to have relations with their parents either figuratively or actually.