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Most knowledge of policies and practices regarding the transition from care is based on the industrialized Western, primarily American and European, models. Yet the problems related to leaving care, the needs of young people in this transition, and the potential services that might be offered them are concerns in many countries. This chapter examines the adjustments for policy, research and intervention in other non-Western developing contexts. Particular attention is focused on the country of Vietnam, a Southeast Asian country, with a communist government and a rapidly developing economy.…
This study is a snapshot of a multi-country study involving Italy, Peru, Viet Nam, and Zimbabwe of how individual characteristics, interpersonal relationships, and the communities in which people live interact with institutional drivers to increase or reduce a child’s risk of violence.
By examining the countries above through a multi-level socio-ecological framework, the study found that multiple drivers were interconnected. It was found that structural drivers of violence were identified and included rapid socio-economic transformations accompanied by economic growth, as well as…
This chapter explores issues of children’s agency and participation in anti-trafficking interventions with children trafficked for exploitative labor in Vietnam. In particular, the chapter focuses on the ways children leave labor trafficking situations through outside interventions in the form of rescue and its associated rehabilitation and reintegration programs offered to rescue victims.
The findings of this study reveal that the specificities of the local context, the counter-trafficking actors involved, and the sector in which trafficking takes place are all important to consider in…
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Millions of children are left behind when their parents migrate from home to another place. This study examines whether parental migration can affect health and cognitive ability of left-behind children aged at 5-8 years old in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. It uses data on 7,725 children in the four countries collected from Young Lives surveys in 2007 and 2009. It finds that although parental migration helps families increase per capita consumption, it does not improve health and cognitive ability of children. The effect of parental migration varies across different…
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…
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From a social work perspective, this literature review aims at guiding the development of foster care in Vietnam by discussing current research about foster care from different countries. The literature presents major differences between foster care systems in social democratic states such as Scandinavian countries and liberal welfare regimes such as Canada and the UK. Rehabilitation and family reunion is the number one priority in Sweden while the principle of permanency guides all policy-making in the UK. As a result, in the UK national adoptions are preferred which does not…
As part of phase one of the development of the Martin James Foundation's Asia Care Network, comprehensive studies of the care system in each country were conducted to highlight the need for developing alternative care systems across South-East Asia. This case study highlights relevant data from Vietnam.
According to the case study, the Vietnamese government has collaborated with multiple international charities and…
This report presents the findings of a mappings and assessments review of child protection systems in 14 countries including Cambodia. The principal purpose of the study was to consolidate existing information on the shared strengths, challenges and priorities for developing and strengthening child protection systems in the region that will better safeguard children from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Key observations of each country’s child protection system were made: from what influences development to awareness of the cultural and social contexts that frame…
This report presents an overview of the findings of four separate studies conducted in vulnerable communities in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam on knowledge, attitudes and practices related to child sexual abuse, including in travel and tourism. The research provides a general understanding of the awareness, understanding and behaviours in communities around the issue of child sexual abuse.
ISS, with support from UNICEF Viet Nam and MOLISA, undertook research on child abandonment and relinquishment in 2011 and 2012, as part of its follow up technical support to Viet Nam in overhauling its adoption system. Field assessments were carried out in five provinces and qualitative information was collected during interviews with 146 respondents with strong connections to issues of child abandonment and relinquishment. Information was collected in face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with 35 mothers/fathers or family members who had relinquished a child.
The results…