Displaying 1 - 5 of 5
Abstract:
Around the world, more than eight million girls and boys grow up for long periods of their lives not in their own families but in residential institutions. Children are placed in residential institutions because they live in harsh social conditions due to death of one or both parents, parent's illness, adverse economic circumstances, unknown parenthood, cracked family, parent's imprisonment and family inability to provide proper care. Quality of life concerns the satisfaction of individual's needs and demands, which are necessary for his satisfaction with life. Hence, this…
Abstract:
Background: There is a societal need to institutionalize child protection mechanisms and services for monitoring of children subjected to abuse and exploitation. The aim of the study was to assess the occurrence of violence among orphaned children and its consequences on their physical and psychological health status.
Subjects & methods: a descriptive analytical study design was utilized at three randomly selected orphanage institutions-Menofia Governorate, Egypt. All children and adolescents from 6-18 years residents at the selected orphanage home (n=125) were included…
This Masters thesis paper, by Michael Maher King of the University of Oxford, reviews the situations of children in institutional alternative care in Israel and Japan. According to the paper, Japan and Israel are significant outliers in the global trend towards deinstitutionalisation of alternative care for children. Ninety per cent of children entering care in Japan, and eighty per cent of children entering care in Israel are placed into institutions, some of which can house over two hundred children. This qualitative research explores whether there are any shared mechanisms behind the…
Based on research undertaken in 2003, evidence indicated that an average of 110 new born babies were being abandoned in Khartoum every month. Half were estimated to die before receiving any assistance while those who survived abandonment were admitted to a state orphanage.
Social stigma attached to children born out of wedlock: while Islam positively values the care of orphaned and abandoned children by others, the legal recognition of the relationship between the orphaned child and their caregivers is based on the system of Kafala — the Islamic duty to save any…
This paper draws on interviews with children on the street, in corrective institutions and in low-income households to describe the pressures that eject them from homes, and the abuse and exploitation they have suffered at the hands of the police, the corrective institutions and, often, their own families. It also describes the inappropriate laws and public attitudes that underlie such problems.
©Environment and Urbanization