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This article evaluates the impact of a large cash transfer program in South Africa on children’s nutritional status and investigates whether the gender of the recipient affects that impact. In the early 1990s the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded for the black population. In 1993 the benefits were about twice the median per capita income in rural areas. More than a quarter of black South African children under age five live with a pension recipient. Estimates suggest that pensions received by women had a large impact on the anthropometric status (…
As the HIV/AIDS epidemic strikes at the heart of family and community support structures, large numbers of older people are assuming responsibility for bringing up orphans and vulnerable children. Family structures are changing. Often the middle generation – both men and women – is completely absent, leaving the old and young to support each other.
This means that families of older carers and orphans and vulnerable children are compelled to take on new roles. Older people make up a significant proportion of the poorest, and HIV/AIDS exacerbates the extreme poverty faced by older-…
Developing effective interventions to mitigate the devastation HIV/AIDS causes among children and families requires giving careful attention to both ends of the epidemic’s spectrum of impacts. It is vitally important to understand the problems on a human scale, what happens to parents, children, and orphans’ guardians. But this perspective, by itself, is not adequate to guide a strategic response to these problems. It is also essential to keep in mind the magnitude and scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its collective impacts. Developing programs that significantly improve the lives of…
New policy in China allows court applications to revoke the guardianship of parents or authorized guardians if they refuse to perform their custody duties for more than six months.
On the 24th September Better Care Network and the CPC Learning Network organized a one day symposium entitled The State of the Evidence on Children’s Care at McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, New York University.
The symposium topics were clustered around three specific areas of issues related to children’s care:
- Efforts to measure trends in families and children’s care and living arrangements;
- Initiatives to measure the impact of policies and programs to strengthen families and to…
Graff's article asserts that westerns have been sold the myth of a world orphan crisis. We are told that millions of children are waiting for their “forever families” to rescue them from lives of abandonment and abuse. But many of the infants and toddlers being adopted by Western parents today are not orphans at all. Yes, hundreds of thousands of children around the world do need loving homes. But more often than not, the neediest children are sick, disabled, traumatized, or older than 5. They are not the healthy babies that, quite understandably, most Westerners hope to adopt. There are…
This consultancy is aimed at developing a comprehensive Regulation on tutorship and guardianship of the child in accordance with the newly adopted legislation. Relevant international standards, with focus on ensuring the wellbeing and the best interests of the child in the legal representation, custody and legal responsibility, will be duly considered along with the findings and recommendations of the above-mentioned UNICEF supported exercises. The draft regulatory framework will be consulted with MHLSP and will be subject to a validation meeting with relevant…
Uma lista de cartas, convenções, padrões e políticas regionais e internacionais relacionadas ao cuidado infantil.
Convenção sobre os Direitos da Criança
A Convenção sobre os Direitos da Criança foi adoptada em 20 de Novembro de 1989 e entrou em vigor em 2 de Setembro de 1990. Até o momento, foi ratificada por 195 países . Um certo número de disposições da Convenção são especialmente relevantes para cuidados em crianças , em particular, os artigos 9, 10, 19, 20, 21, entre outros. …
As Diretrizes para os Cuidados Alternativos de Crianças, bem como outras disposições do direito internacional e um crescente corpo de pesquisa, claramente estabelecem os direitos da criança a protecção e a cuidados familiares. Esta secção destaca a relevância das diretrizes internacionais.
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A família é o núcleo fundamental da sociedade e o espaço de desenvolvimento , bem-estar e proteção das crianças. Esta realidade é apoiada por anos de experiência e pesquisa, foi formalmente reconhecida através de muitos instrumentos…