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Foster care children are a highly vulnerable population and their experiences in care are considered crucial to their developmental and psychosocial wellbeing. Placement instability has been considered a possible risk factor for developmental difficulties due to its impact on the development of a reparative attachment relationship and sense of relational permanence. The current review synthesizes the literature regarding the impact of placement instability on behavioural and mental health outcomes in foster care children. Three major databases and…
Ces Formulaires modèles renferment des informations importantes concernant les garanties établies par la Convention Adoption de 1993, telles que le consentement des personnes, institutions et autorités dans la procédure d'adoption (art. 4(c) et (d)), l'adoptabilité de l'enfant (art. 16) et la l’éligibilité et l'aptitude des futurs parents adoptifs (art. 15). Ainsi, les Formulaires modèles constituent un outil de collecte d'informations permettant à toutes les parties concernées de prendre des décisions éclairées et conformes à l'intérêt supérieur de l'enfant.
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The Model Forms are intended to simplify and facilitate compliance with the 1993 Adoption Convention by assisting Contracting Parties in the collection of relevant information. They contain important information regarding safeguards established by the 1993 Adoption Convention, such as the consent of persons, institutions, and authorities in the process of adoption (Art. 4(c) and (d)), the adoptability of the child (Art. 16) and the eligibility and suitability of prospective adoptive parents (Art. 15).
These Model Forms contain important information regarding safeguards established by the…
The mental health and wellbeing of children and young people who have been in care, primarily foster care, kinship care or residential care, remains a public health priority. The Care-experienced cHildren and young people’s Interventions to improve Mental health and wEll-being outcomes Systematic review (CHIMES) synthesized evidence for the effectiveness of interventions targeting: subjective wellbeing; mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders; and suicide-related outcomes. Searches were conducted in 16 bibliographic databases and 22 websites between 1990 and 2022. This was…
This essential Research Handbook provides a multifaceted exploration of surrogacy and the law, examining a variety of critical yet under-researched perspectives including globalisation, power, gender, sexual orientation, genetics, human rights and family relations.
Bringing together diverse, expert contributors, this contemporary Research Handbook covers four distinct topics: surrogacy and rights, the interplay between surrogacy and different areas of the law, cross-border aspects, and regional perspectives. Building on case studies from a multitude of countries, astute authors tackle…
Este Conjunto de Herramientas está compuesto de las herramientas enumeradas a continuación, que pueden ser leídas de manera independiente o conjunta. Cuando es relevante, se hace referencia entre las herramientas para aportar una visión holística de la manera de proceder para facilitar la detección, prevención y la respuesta a las prácticas ilícitas.
Las herramientas fueron deliberadamente redactadas en términos generales para alentar a los Estados a adaptarlas a sus realidades específicas al establecer sus propios procedimientos, medidas y garantías, y difundirlas ampliamente. Este…
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Is residential care 'inherently harmful'? This book argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong and is, itself, harmful to a significant number of children and youth.
The presumptive view is based largely on overgeneralizations from research with infants and very young children raised in extremely deprived environments. A careful analysis of the available research supports the use of high-quality residential care as a treatment of choice with certain groups of needy children and youth, not a last resort intervention. The nature of high-quality care is explored…
Family for Every Child launched its global inter-agency guidance on supporting kinship care aimed at policy makers and programme managers during this webinar on 1 February 2024.
Kinship care is defined as care in the extended family or with friends of the family. The guidance aims to convince governments, UN agencies and NGOs of the need to prioritise support to kinship care, and outlines the key components of this support, providing examples of promising practice. In this launch webinar Family for Every Child shared an overview of the guidance, the 2 year highly consultative process that…
This article analyzes ethical issues arising in transreligious foster care placements in relation to foster children’s needs regarding religious socialization and identification. Applying Urban Walker’s expressive-collaborative framework to 30 qualitative interviews with foster parents, foster children, parents, and professionals, the authors elaborate and apply a three-level reflection on Christian foster parents’ ethics of care in everyday practice of foster care.
A first-level reflection demonstrates that integrating the foster child in the foster family often leads to predominant…
Family-centred practice (FCP) has been suggested as a best practice for treating youth with emotional and behavioural difficulties in residential care. In this preregistered global systematic review, the authors examined how FCP is operationalized and measured in residential youth care and which family outcomes are associated with FCP. Their systematic search in six databases identified 5784 articles. Their analyses included articles by coding the operationalizations of FCP in the interventions and study measures. Further, they descriptively summarized relations between FCP and family…