Child Maltreatment in Residential Care History, Research, and Curren
This data-rich volume reviews short- and long-term consequences of residential or institutional care for children across the globe as well as approaches to reducing maltreatment. Up-to-date findings from a wide range of developing and developed countries
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Maltreatment in Residential Care History, Research, and Current Practice
Child Maltreatment in Residential Care
Adrian V. Rus • Sheri R. Parris Ecaterina Stativa Editors
Child Maltreatment in Residential Care History, Research, and Current Practice
Editors Adrian V. Rus Department of Social and Behavioral Science Southwestern Christian University Bethany, OK, USA
Sheri R. Parris Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX, USA
Ecaterina Stativa Social Pediatrics and Obstetrics Research Department National Institute for Mother and Child Health “Alessandrescu-Rusescu” Bucuresti, Romania
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Foreword
This textbook may raise more questions than it answers. It presents multiple views of the role of institutions/residential centers/orphanages/group care or any other name you want to give to the care of children outside of family care that live in group settings with other children. Globally, as you will read throughout these chapters, poverty, civil unrest/social upheaval, and economic insecurity drive child welfare systems, making the most vulnerable children even more at risk – for negative life outcomes, placement outside of their birth family or kinship network, and a host of other negative short-term and long-term impacts. Every country and community develops a way to care for and manage their children who cannot remain in their families. Residential care is an efficient intervention, but many concerns have been ra
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