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This is a joint statement by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Ukrainian children with disabilities. They express concern about the thousands of Ukrainian children with disabilities who were living in residential institutions and have been evacuated from war zones to Western Ukraine or to other countries, as well as those who have remained in unsafe areas. In particular, they draw attention to children with high support requirements who are negatively affected by institutionalization.
"We support the effort of the…
In this issue of ODR, Maxim Tucker details the deinstitutionalization challenges facing Ukraine. Under an older care system developed during the Soviet Era, children were housed in internats – boarding schools for children who were orphans or came from poor families. This system was set up to turn children into workers, not necessarily look out for their best interests. Since Ukraine’s independence, little has changed in this care model.
A group of organisations led by Ombudsman Kuleba are working to end the internat system. Kuleba has a plan that he wishes to put…
Due to poverty and military conflicts in the east, the number of children in institutional care in Ukraine has increased. In 2015, there were 99,915 children in Ukraine living in institutions.
This report is a product of a three-year investigation by Disability Rights International (DRI) into the abuses experienced by children - both with and without disabilities - in large-scale institutions, psychiatric facilities, and boarding schools in Ukraine, of whom there are nearly 100,000, according to the report. For children with disabilities especially, says the report, “orphanages are a gateway to lifelong institutionalization in abusive adult facilities.” The report details the grave human rights abuses faced by institutionalized children throughout Ukraine, both before and during…
In this important chapter of the Handbook of Child Well-Being, the authors review the findings from research on the cognitive and social-emotional development of children exposed to various natural experiments in which the quality of parenting or family environment could be placed on a continuum. The authors first review findings on the social-emotional and cognitive development of children reared in institutional care. As an illustration they present two studies involved children reared in institutions in Ukraine and Greece.…
Abstract:
In this meta-analysis of 75 studies on more than 3,888 children in 19 different countries, the intellectual development of children living in children's homes (orphanages) was compared with that of children living with their (foster) families. Children growing up in children's homes showed lower IQ's than did children growing up in a family (trimmed d = 0.74). The age at placement in the children's home, the age of the child at the time of assessment, and the developmental level of the country of residence were associated with the size of the delays. Children growing up in…