Fact Sheet: Children in Residential Care Institutions
This fact sheet from ReThink Orphanages presents quick facts about residential care for children around the world.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Modern Slavery Inquiry Report
The Australian Parliament has released a Report of its inquiry into establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia. This Inquiry Report recognizes orphanage trafficking as a form of modern slavery to be included in the Act.
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The Deported: Immigrants Uprooted from the Country They Call Home
This report sets forth the 2017 official data on immigration arrests and deportations and details the often-wrenching human impact of Trump’s policies on undocumented immigrants, their families, and their US communities.
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Backward Progress Toward Reinstating Parental Rights
This article examines the legal inadequacies of reinstatement statutes in the US which "often punish parents who opposed the termination of their parental rights and reward those who voluntarily signed relinquishments."
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Child Welfare's Scarlet Letter: How a Prior Termination of Parental Rights Can Permanently Brand a Parent as Unfit
This article explores this practice, examines its origins, and discusses its constitutional inadequacies.
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Sibling relationships of youth in foster care: A predictor of resilience
With a sample of 246 youth from a non-profit organization's summer camp program, Camp To Belong, this study examined the association between a warm sibling relationship and resilience for youth in foster care.
Late-adoptions in adolescence: Can attachment and emotion regulation influence behaviour problems? A controlled study using a moderation approach
The current study explores (a) a moderation model of adoption status on the association between attachment representations (secure, dismissing, preoccupied, and disorganized) and behavioural problems and (b) a moderation model of adoption status on the association between emotion regulation processes (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) and behavioural problems.
The potential of successful parenting in foster families
The article contains analysis of parental potential in foster families and the resources of its strengthening with the support of the professional community.
Number of children in foster care continues to increase
This report provides preliminary estimates of Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data for FY 2016 in the United States.
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Methodological Challenges to the Evaluation of Interventions for Foster/Kinship Carers and Children: A Systematic Review
This review aims to systematically review methodological challenges and limitations of interventions designed to help foster carers meet the needs of children, to provide an analysis of the current state of the evidence base for these interventions.