Parenting Support

Families will require support when faced with problems they are unable to overcome on their own. Ideally support should come from existing networks, such as extended family, religious leaders, and neighbours. Where such support is not available or sufficient, additional family and community services are required. Such services are particularly important for kinship, foster and adoptive caretakers, and child headed households in order to prevent separation and address abuse and exploitation of children. It is also vital for children affected by HIV/AIDS and armed conflict, and those children living on the street.

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Carolina Vargas-Porras, Beatriz Villamizar-Carvajal, Edinson Fabian Ardila-Suárez - Enfermería Clínica,

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with the risk of negligence in child care during the first year of rearing in adolescent and adult mothers.

National Family Support Network,

The Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support are designed to help ensure that families are supported and strengthened through quality practice.

Save the Children Indonesia,

This animated video describes Indonesia's Families First Signature Program which began in 2005. The goal of Families First is to ensure that every child in Indonesia has a safe, family environment, recognizing that family-based care is best for child development. The video describes how the Signature Program has helped shift care away from institutions towards family-based care.

Overseas Development Institute,

This report and summary explores the current childcare policy failures across a range of case-study countries, including Viet Nam, Gaza, Mexico, India and Ethiopia, and highlights examples of progress in countries which are successfully responding to these challenges.

Global Communities and Hope and Homes for Children,

This report highlights stories of some children, youth and families who have been assisted under the Ishema Mu Muryango program. While each of their stories is unique, all highlight some common themes about institutionalization and child abandonment in Rwanda. 

Child's i Foundation,

In this video Child's i Foundation works with Care 4 Kids, an orphanage for 53 children, which wants to reintegrate children back into families but had challenges convincing the families that they could provide better care. Child's i Foundation organised an open day for families and invited parents who had taken their children back from Rafiki to explain the benefits of children growing up in families.

Elizabeth M. Aparicio - Child & Family Social Work,

This study focused on a particular dimension of teenage motherhood in foster care: participants' efforts to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect with their own children. 

Elizabeth M. Aparicio,

The current study employed interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore 18 in-depth, qualitative interviews from six participants on the meaning and experience of motherhood among teenage mothers in the United States in foster care in the and in the years immediately after ageing out. 

Parenting in Africa Network and Save the Children,

This report shares highlights and lessons learned from PAN's work on family strengthening during the year 2015. 

Gloria K. Seruwagi, Francis Ssuubi, Eric A. Ochen - European Journal of Research in Social Sciences,

The overall objective of this study was to deepen understanding on the experiences and support systems of grandparent-headed households with children of prisoners (CoP) in Uganda.