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This blog post by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Ramya Subrahmanian of the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti calls attention to the risks faced by women and girls in light of the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacts of the pandemic on women and girls' unpaid care work. "Emerging evidence suggests that care roles continue to be assumed disproportionately by women during this pandemic," note the authors. Furthermore, "people over the age of 60 have the highest risk of infection. They are also often sources of childcare support…
This editorial piece from the Lancet posits whether today's children "will be defined and confined by the losses from COVID-19." The editorial argues that "this roiling milieu offers a moment in which a new agenda for health could emerge with children and adolescents at the centre."
In this comment from the Lancet, the authors explores how to communication to children about the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly when someone in the family is hospitalised for or dies from COVID-19. "Crucially, the quality of communication with children about life-threatening illness and death has a long-term effect on their psychological wellbeing and family functioning. Therefore, health-care professionals need to identify affected children to promote and facilitate effective communication within the family," write the authors.
"COVID-19 presents a bewildering array of challenges…
This analysis focuses on the case of Pedersen et al. v. Norway, where the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, Court) addressed the issues of adoption and post-adoption contact. In this case, the ECtHR concluded that Norway violated the right to respect for family life (Article 8) when implementing child protection measures. According to the blog post, "The central criticism of the Court focused on the fact that the authorities were responsible for the family breakdown, as they failed in their obligations to take measures to facilitate family reunification (para 68…
In this article for the Guardian, Hannah Walker, a social worker and life story book worker, writes about the use of life story books for children who have been adopted. Life story books "are crucial for helping adopted children make sense of their past and who they are," writes Walker. "Life story books are a way to help adopted children understand their past and where they come from. The books should include information about birth family, when the child was born, previous foster carers and why they were adopted, as well as information about the here and now to help the child start and…