Handbook of Infant Mental Health: Fourth Edition
This volume examines typical and atypical development from birth to the preschool years and identifies what works in helping children and families at risk.
Child Abuse Research in South Africa - Baby factories : a new phase in child trafficking in Nigeria
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.
Enhancing Parenting Effectiveness, Fathers' Involvement, Couple Relationship Quality, and Children's Development: Breaking Down Silos in Family Policy Making and Service Delivery
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.
Maternal and child protection services at home. Results from a national study
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.
Effects of the homecare assistance program on maternal and child protection services
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.
Comparison of public mother–baby psychiatric units in Australia: similarities, strengths and recommendations
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.
Unaccompanied Immigrant Child and Family/ Sponsor Community Service System Study: Metropolitan Chicago Area
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.
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Gifts, trips and Facebook families: children and the semiotics of kinship in transnational Senegal
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.
The Situation for Children Without Parental Care and Strategies for Policy Change
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.