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This video features a segment of a talk on the effects of care environments on children, hosted by the Christian Alliance for Orphans. The key speakers featured include Dr. Kathryn Whetten & Dr. Charles Nelson, who discuss the Positive Outcomes for Orphans study (POFO) and the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), respectively.
Dr. Nelson speaks about the institutionalization of children and its impact on the brain development of institutionalized children. Many children in institutions, says Dr. Nelson, experience isolation, a lack of response to distress, a…
In this TED Talk, poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his story of growing up in foster care in the UK. His mother had immigrated to the UK from Ethiopia in the late 1960s and became pregnant. At the time, Sissay says, unmarried women who became pregnant were treated as a threat to the community, were separated from their families, and put into mother and baby homes where adoptive parents would be lined up right away. Mothers, at their most vulnerable moments, would be convinced to sign adoption papers releasing their children to the state and the babies would be given up for…