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This paper interrogates traditional African community values; the family; wellness; and the impact of westernization on African family value systems. The paper is based on literature and studies by the academic community. It reviews related literature on the African extended family system and how it caters for orphans in their communities. The central argument in the paper is that in traditional African culture, there were ‘no orphans’ as parentless children were cared for within the kin system. This paper shows how the extended family heads were involved in the promotion of…
Plan International Cambodia is implementing child protection programs across target provinces (Siem Reap, Tboung Khmum, Stung Treng, and Ratanak Kiri). The child protection program aims at ‘Girls and boys of all ages, especially the most marginalized are protected from violence, abuse and neglect.’ The purpose of this study is to better understand how gender inequality impacts the Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms, its child clubs and caregiver groups and how programming should be targeted to being gender transformative – changing social norms that promote gender inequality.
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This study employed a correlational design and examined the extent to which four components of quality of care (including food security, quality of shelter, quality of caregiving, and access to health care services) predicted psychosocial well-being of orphaned and separated children (OSC), as well as the extent to which these components of quality of care and key demographic factors, such as age, gender, and orphan status moderated the associations between care settings and psychosocial well-being of OSC. This study was an extension of Whetten et al.’s 2009 study that found…
To address a knowledge gap and to help strengthen policy and practice around child protection, the Interagency Learning Initiative is implementing action research in Kenya and Sierra Leone (see Annex 1). The first stage of the research, which is the focus of this report, involves systematic learning about existing CBCPMs and their linkage with formal, government led aspects of the wider child protection system. Subsequently, randomly selected communities will choose a child protection issue to address and will design and lead the implementation of an intervention that includes an appropriate…
The First Peoples Child & Family Review is published twice yearly by the First Nations Caring Society of Canada (FNCFCS). The First Peoples Child & Family Review proudly presents this Special Edition on Custom Adoptions in partnership with the Siem Smun’eem Indigenous Child Wellbeing Research Network at the University of Victoria. This edition contains research articles, agency experiences, cultural perspectives and personal stories that highlight custom adoption from a historical and contemporary perspective.
This special edition of First Peoples Child and Family Review…
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This paper forms Part 2 of a two-part discussion paper. Part 1 outlined a short history of adoption in Canada, examined the impact of forced, closed, and external adoptions on Indigenous adoptees and families, and traced the move toward more open statutory adoptions and greater cultural continuity in adoptions. Having zeroed in on the entangled histories of adoption and colonization in Part 1, here we explore traditional and contemporary practices of Indigenous custom adoption and caretaking. We first recount Western understandings and impositions, then feature Indigenous…
This publication, produced by the Parenting in Africa Network (PAN), highlights the skillful parenting practices of several pastoral communities in Africa, including the Gabra and the Maasai people in Kenya, the Bozo community in Mali, the Ndebele of South Africa, and the Swahili community of the coastal strip of Africa. The aspects of parenting highlighted are: pre-birth mother care, post birth mother and child care, instilling skills in responsibility and respect, child-parent interaction, the role of fathers, sexuality and puberty, preparation for marriage, care of vulnerable children, and…
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Long-term separation between child and family due to armed conflict creates a number of challenges for family reunification programs. Whereas emergency programs appropriately work towards managing effective “lost and found” type of operations, after long separation, the physical act of reunifying is often not sufficient. This is particularly true for children who are placed in residential centers as an interim solution and for children returning to extended family members. Experience shows that after years in care, children have become institutionalized and are commonly ill…
Executive Summary
A common conception is that Islamic law forbids adoptions. However, this belief misses the complexity of Islamic law, the scope of adoption laws and practices across the world, and the overwhelming emphasis on taking care of orphans and foundlings found within Islamic sources. Contemporary adoption practices are immensely complex issues, overlapping with children’s rights, international and national laws, human psychology, economic, social, and religious concerns, and the ethics of lineage, identity, property and inheritance rights. In this position paper, the Muslim…
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) was commissioned by the Children in Distress (CINDI) Network to conduct a study of endogenous community-based responses to the needs of children affected by HIV and AIDS, and how these might be supported in KwaZulu-Natal. Specifically, the aim was to consult with local communities to identify appropriate forms of support for such responses, and to explore mechanisms for integrating community-based responses into government and non-governmental organisation (NGO) programmes.
HIV and AIDS impact on children in a number of ways. With increasing numbers…