The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Peru: The process and its outcomes

Patricia Ames, Jeanine Anderson, Amanda Martin, Rosario Rodriguez & Alina Potts - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article presents the Peru results as part of the Multi Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children.

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The transformative process of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Italy

Erika Bernacchi & Marco Zelano - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article reflects on the process of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Italy.

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The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Zimbabwe: Using a mixed methods, multi-stakeholder approach to discover what drives violence

Noriko Izumi and Line Baago Rasmussen - UNICEF - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care

This article presents an overview of the Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children (VAC) process – including some of the challenges faced and how these were addressed – and a snapshot of the specific findings which helped stakeholders further their understanding about the drivers of VAC in Zimbabwe and what can be done to address them.

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The effect of the colonialist terms “orphan” and “adoption” on the citizenship status of indigenous Fijian adoptees within their own community

Erica Newman - AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

This article investigates the colonialist definitions of the terms “orphan” and “adoption”, contrasting them with how the traditional practice of child circulation in Fiji cared for orphaned children.

The Face of Grief in Foster Care

Angela Look - Journal of Humanistic Psychology

In this article, the author provides a synopsis of some current statistics about foster care and the experience of the foster care system in the US and offers an overview of a handful of relevant grief theories and expend a call to those within the field to develop more unique grief theories and interventions for children in the foster care system.