The issue of how best to address current problems in the foster care system while at the
same time considering past problems with the orphanage concept is a cause of national …

Although for the last two decades Ukraine has been trying to reform institutional care as a
child-rearing practice breaching the rights of the child, this type of care is still prevailing and …

Children around the world need care outside their families for a variety of reasons including
poverty, war and epidemics such as HIV/AIDS. The majority of these children live in …

Social workers have advocated closing large youth care institutions and moving to adoption,
foster care and group homes. However, these approaches have proven to be costly and …

Abstract The Civil Rights Act and the expansion of Title IV of the Social Security Act in 1962
vastly increased the number of children and families eligible for child welfare services in the …

Can historians of childhood inform children's policy, and if so, how? Spurred by a panel at
the 2009 meeting of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, this examination of …

During the past several decades, historiographic debates on nineteenth-century charity and
welfare reform have raged over a variety of issues. These include the functions of institutions …

In this phenomenological study I investigated the effects of early childhood socialization in
the orphanage on the educational decisions of adult African women. I worked with eight …

Since the 1960s, foster care has been the United States' method of choice for housing the
growing cadre of children in its substitute care system. Most substitute care children have …