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The New Jersey Supreme Court announced that it will hear the case of a New Jersey indigent mother who lacked an attorney when when a judge ordered her 2-year-old daughter taken from her custody and placed with a “financially advantaged” foster family.
The case will address whether some New Jersey parents are "too poor" to care for their children, whether they have a constitutional right to an attorney when their custody is being challenged in court, and whether the indigent mother should be allowed to visit her daughter even without custody. The Supreme Court …
The State of the World’s Fathers 2015 Report was launched at an event at the UN Headquarters in New York on 16 June, 2015. The event brought together several speakers and panelists, including Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation, who delivered the opening remarks, and Kate Gilmore, Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA, who delivered the keynote address (filling in for Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, who was unable to attend).
The event focused on the role of men in caregiving and how an increase in men’s involvement in caretaking is crucial to achieving…
Chelsea Clinton, who led the opening remarks at the unveiling of the inaugural State of the World’s Fathers report at the UN earlier today, called for all countries across the globe, including the United States, to ensure paid paternity leave for mothers and fathers.
“We know that having more opportunities for fathers to be engaged is not only good for fathers and their children, but good for our economies’, says Chelsea, “And yet, it’s not only a shift in mindsets that has enabled this to happen, it’s also a shift in policies and practices. One of those policies and practices that this…
In this article, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee discusses the critical brain development that happens in the first year of a baby’s life, and the impact that growing up in poverty has on that cognitive development. Researchers in Philadelphia, USA studied the environments of children living in poverty and found that children who received more attention and nurturing in infancy tended to have higher IQ scores and that children who received more cognitive stimulation tended to perform better on language tasks. Furthermore, the researchers studied these children at the age of four, eight, and as…
The well known radio show This American Life has collaborated with Planet Money to investigate the work of a charity called GiveDirectly. Instead of funding schools or wells or livestock, GiveDirectly has decided to just give money directly to the poor people who need it, and let them decide how to spend it. The team goes to Kenya to speak to beneficiaries of the scheme and others in their communities. The podcast explores whether this method of charity works, and why some people think it's a terrible idea.
It…
Illuminating many of the observations and conclusions from the UNICEF State of the World’s Children report on children with disabilities, the New Straits Times has published an article on the state of children with disabilities in Vietnam. According to the article, Vietnam has some of the highest rates of child disability in the world, which it attributes to the nation’s legacy of decades of war and particularly to the country’s exposure to the defoliant “Agent Orange” used in warfare. The article states that up to three million Vietnamese people were exposed to dioxin in Agent…
March 28-30, 2022
ISPCAN is closely monitoring the situation surrounding the COVID-19, and we are committed to keeping all participants updated on any new information that could impact ISPCAN 2022 scheduled in Québec City, Canada, March 28 – 30, 2022. At the moment, we are moving ahead with our plans to host the event in person at the Québec City Convention Center and we are also looking at hybrid options to bring the congress to you on-line for those who are unable to travel.
Along with the local organizing committee, we will work…
Parenting and caregiving programmes offer a promising pathway to improving gender inequality as well as preventing both intimate partner violence (IPV) and violence against children (VAC) in the home. In this webinar, we highlight key findings and recommendations from parenting programmes that apply a gender-transformative approach to address IPV and VAC together and reflect on how this evidence has been used to strengthen interventions.
This is the first webinar in a series about integrating IPV and VAC in violence prevention programmes.
Speakers
Lina Digolo, Senior Associate,…
On 29th June 2017, Care to Practice’s Lucy Hillier interviewed Kudely Sokoine, Tanzania country programme coordinator at ICS-SP. They discussed the kinds of parenting issues which arise in Tanzania, how ICS is addressing them through its positive parenting programme, what is working, and what is more challenging. The interview was recorded and is 45 minutes long.
To listen to the recording, please…
In this interview recording, Care to Practice’s Lucy Hillier speaks to Dr. Rachel Bray about a recent review of evidence on family care, parenting and adolescence in East and Southern Africa. Dr. Bray discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the current evidence base, western versus regional notions of family and parenting, and the study’s implications for parenting and family strengthening programmes, policy and research.
To listen to the interview recording, please click the link above…