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Katharine Hall and Winnie Sambu - South African Child Gauge 2018,

This chapter from the South African Child Gauge 2018 provides an overview of children living in poverty in South Africa, highlighting those living in households without an employed adult.

Paula Proudlock and Stefanie Rohrs - South African Child Gauge 2018,

This chapter from the South African Child Gauge 2018 reviews the latest developments in law and policy affecting children in South Africa. 

Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Tawanda Makusha, Deidre Blackie, Lenore Manderson, Katharine Hall and Mayke Huijbregts - South African Child Gauge 2018,

This chapter from the South African Child Gauge 2018 focuses on childcare and children’s caregivers in South Africa and aims to address the following questions: Who provides care for children? How does the state support or undermine care choices? Why and how should the state support caregivers?

Katharine Hall and Winnie Sambu - South African Child Gauge 2018,

This chapter from South African Child Gauge 2018 describes the demographics of children's household living arrangements in South Africa, including details on orphaned children.

Katharine Hall, Linda Richter, Zitha Mokomane & Lori Lake (Eds) - Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town,

This thirteenth issue of the South African Child Gauge® focuses on children in relation to families and the state, both of which are central to providing for children and supporting their development.

Katharine Hall - The Conversation,

"Kinship care is a widespread and customary practice in South Africa, as it is elsewhere in southern Africa," says this article by Kath Hall. The laws that support families in the country, however, do not always take these practices into account.

Naomi Larsson - The Guardian,

This article from the Guardian shines a light on the poor conditions found in many children's home for children with disabilities in Kenya.

Avani Shah, Shawn Jeffries, Leah P. Cheatham, Will Hasenbein, Misty Creel, Debra Nelson-Gardell, Nysthesia White-Chapman - Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services,

This comprehensive narrative review identifies the use of motivational interviewing (MI) in child welfare (CW), the outcomes of MI use and the gaps in the literature.

Katherine L. Guyon-Harris, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Nathan A. Fox, Charles A. Nelson, Charles H. Zeanah - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The aim of this study is to examine associations between signs of reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED) and social functioning in children with a history of institutional rearing in early adolescence.

AVSI USA,

This video presents the work of the FARE family strengthening program in Uganda to prevent separation of families and reintegrate children who are separated from their families, including the story of one young person and his family who were impacted by the program.