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This document discusses the means by which the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Youth Protection in the Netherlands (the Council) can provide the highest level of protection for children placed in the intercountry adoption focus group. In doing this, the Council hopes provide an answer as to what intercountry adoption scenario is preferable.
The Council notes a sharp decline in the number of intercountry adoptions into the Netherlands over the past ten years. The report states that the positive aspect of intercountry adoptions is that children are…
From the Abstract: How migration policies affect family mobility and relationships is a new and emerging area of study within transnational family literature. This chapter from the book Family Life in an Age of Migration contributes to this literature by providing an in-depth examination of Ghanaian migrant mothers’ encounters with Dutch family migration policies and the impacts such policies have on their pathways to family reunion and the consequences for family relationships. The data come from qualitative research with 32 female Ghanaian migrants in The Netherlands. Adopting…
This article discusses the legal residency advocacy campaign that occurred in the late 2000s in the Netherlands and the United States on behalf of immigrant youths with precarious legal status. These advocates argued that youths possessed certain cultural attributes and that these attributes made them deserving of permanent residency status. These two campaigns drew upon different action repertoires to assert claims. Yet they both centered on immigrant youth, and they both stressed that the possession of specific cultural attributes made this subgroup uniquely deserving of…
On 22 April, BCN Netherlands organized a seminar on gatekeeping in Utrecht, Netherlands. The goal of the yearly event was to share the theoretical framework, principles and practice, and experiences on gatekeeping with a broad audience, ranging from professionals in the development and child care sectors as well as individuals running small foundations supporting child care projects locally in the Global South. Approximately 70-80 participants, including members of the BCN steering committee attended the meeting.
The program included an introductory presentation by Maria Herczog, featuring…
Meant to highlight the maxim that every child deserves the best that we all have to give; this book provides a review of progress made since The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It contains reports from 21 countries on the status of the rights of the child. The reporting countries are: Australia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Solomon Islands, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Uzbekistan and Venezuela. There are no reports from Africa.
At the time of publication, 195 countries had…
This article explores the use of baby boxes in Germany and the Netherlands. The authors note that the use of baby boxes is often promoted without appropriate legislation and the protocol in these countries is to keep the identity of mothers confidential to protect them and their children. The paper describes the different approaches to baby boxes and their outcomes in both countries. The paper concludes that further analysis is needed to determine whether providing legal opportunities in both countries for confidential birth is serving the best interests of children and women who do not want…
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Most Dutch foster children live permanently in foster families. It is often assumed that foster children have ambivalent loyalties and attachments to their birth parents and foster parents and are torn between the two. In this study 59 children between 10 and 18 years placed in long term foster care completed standardized questionnaires on the relationship with their parents respectively foster parents and their wellbeing. Results show that, on average, foster children have positive feelings of loyalty and attachment towards both their foster parents and…
Researchers investigated the prevalence of child sexual abuse in foster care and residential care facilities and found that 3.5 children per 1,000 had been victims of child sexual abuse. The researchers asked the following questions: (1) What was the overall year prevalence of child sexual abuse in out-of-home care in 2010? (2) Did the year prevalence of child sexual abuse in residential care differ from the year prevalence in foster care? (3) Did the prevalence estimates of the current study differ from the year prevalence of child sexual abuse in the general Dutch population? and (4)…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 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.
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A comparative analysis of child welfare systems in 10 countries identifies three broad functional orientations – child protection, family service and child development – around the problem definition, mode of intervention and role of the state: The changes in policies and practices since the mid-1990s suggest the possibility of functional convergence among these systems with moderate versions of the child protection and family service orientations incorporated within the more comprehensive approach of child development. An analysis of administrative data on one important outcome…