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Jo Boyden, professor of international development at Oxford University and director of its Young Lives study, has selected five books that challenge Western assumptions and beliefs about child-rearing and how children “should” be raised. The books call attention to the ways in which culture and context impact views on children and child-rearing, which in turn affects children’s development and the human beings they become. The piece features an interview with Boyden, who describes the books and the subjects they cover. The books focus on separation, attachment, loss, education, and much more…
Young people with experience of the care system have issued a checklist of issues they want to be addressed by the Care Review.
About 2,770 children in eastern Congo lost one or both parents to the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, the United Nations estimates, and have ended up living with relatives, in orphanages, or even on the streets.
Traumatised and shunned due to discrimination around the disease, many children must work in order to eat, according to local advocates, who said efforts to care for and educate Ebola orphans were falling short due to a lack of funds and interest.
The stories of children formerly in care in Canada, are being published in a new book called Youth in Care Chronicles, according to this article from CBC News. "I'm writing in hopes of creating some sort of a change," said one young person in an interview. "Everything that people go through within the system, it's a lot and it's a lot to deal with."
This article from the Irish Times features interviews with several care leavers, ahead of the fifth annual Care Day on 21 February 2020, an international celebration of children and young people with care experience celebrated in Ireland, the UK, Spain, Finland, Croatia, Australia and New Zealand. "This is the fifth annual Care Day, and its purpose is to raise awareness about the lives of care leavers and kids in care, and to also recognise their achievements," says the article.
In their interviews, the care leavers discuss issues such as stigma, having to take on care…
The Create Foundation is carrying out a survey to record the experiences and perspectives of young people who have lived in Australia's care system.
Youth-led, adult-supported advocacy groups are empowering foster youth in the U.S. to participate and show leadership in policy decisions that affect them.
In this London School of Economics International Development guest blog, Dr. Chrissie Gale discusses alternative care for children around the world and how it can be improved.
Ghanaian children called on the government to appropriately implement policies designed to protect children from being forced into acts that deprive them of their livelihoods and interfere with their ability to attend regular school.
New Canadian child welfare law allows children to have a say in their care.