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Learning briefs are short resources that share more about how Changing the Way We Care undertakes a certain aspect of the care reform work and what some of the main lessons are. This learning brief was developed as part of the initiative's 2022 annual report and shares learning on family-based alternative care from Guatemala, Moldova, India and Kenya and links the reader to additional CTWWC resources on the topic.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national…
The National Adoption System and Child Protection in Guatemala: Looking Back and Examining the Today
This article discusses the evolution of adoption policy and practices in Guatemala from the 1990s to 2021. The authors synthesized their own research and analyzed adoption scholarship and reports and organized that history into three distinct periods:
(1) conflict years (1966–1996) when mostly Guatemalan military families and associates adopted stolen children,
(2) post-conflict and millennium adoption years (1997-2007) when the commercialization of children and illicit adoptions surged, and
(3) reform years (2008 to date) when new adoption regulations and institutions were…
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La adopción ha existido a lo largo de la historia, ha cambiado en sus formalidades y en su finalidad, adaptándose a los derechos de la niñez; en Grecia los padres abandonaban al bebé dentro de una vasija para que otra persona lo tomara y se hiciera cargo de él; en la antigua Roma la adopción era considerada un privilegio que tenía por objeto principal preservar la vida.
La adopción tiene sus raíces muy remotas. Para el caso de Guatemala, esta se realiza mediante procedimientos ágiles y técnicos en los que se prioriza el interés superior del niño, niña y adolescente -NNA-…
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Evidence of child abduction for intercountry adoption challenges our notions of altruism. The history of illicit adoptions and child abduction is presented with specific emphasis on Guatemala as a case example. Drawing on data produced in an ethnographic research, the analysis searches to elucidate how those involved in intercountry adoption in Spain (mainly adoptive and prospective adoptive parents) deal with signs of fraud and corruption. The results point out how these discourses usually dismiss the failures of the system and revolve around the idea of rescue. The rights of…
From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers tackles the constantly changing landscape of intercountry adoption. Extracting on chronologic data, this book discusses the politics and practice of intercountry adoption starting with the state of international adoption to in the 1950s continuing to present-day adoption practice and protections. Chapters include: 1) Rescue, refugees, orphans and restitution; 2) The politics of adoption from Romania to Russia and what we know about children languishing in residential care…
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Utilizing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, this paper from Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4 examines critical components and current characteristics of alternative care for children in low‐resource countries. It begins by exploring the role of values within policy and practice related to child welfare. Then a brief examination comparing alternative care in high‐ versus low‐resource countries is presented. Alternative care includes…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the seventeenth session (20 March 2017 - 12 April 2017) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
The world is facing a hidden crisis in childcare. That crisis is leaving millions of children without the support they need, with damaging consequences for their future. It is also having severe impacts on three generations of women – on mothers, grandmothers and daughters.
There is an urgent need to solve the global care crisis to improve the lives of both women and children and to grow economies. There are 671 million children under five in the world today. Given labour force participation rates that exceed 60% globally, a large number of these children…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committees' recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
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This article discusses the effect of international migration on the accumulation of human capital among Mexican youths aged 15–18 who are left behind. Evidence indicates the existence of a negative impact of sibling and parental migration on school attendance among young males but not on the measure of cognitive ability. Migration of extended family members has no significant effect. There is no evidence of a robust effect among females. The negative effect of sibling migration suggests that lower migration costs and differences in return to Mexican formal education between the…