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The Production and Reproduction of Kinship in Charitable Children's Institutions in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya
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Gayapersad, Allison; Ombok, Caroline; Kamanda, Allan; Tarus, Carren; Ayuku, David; Braitstein, Paula – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: The negative impact of institutionalization on children's development and well-being has led to a global recommendation for deinstitutionalization. In countries with weak infrastructure and family support, some children in institutional care have been found to have better outcomes, which may be due in part to the family-like…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Residential Programs, Children, Family Environment
Differences between Sexually Victimized and Nonsexually Victimized Male Adolescent Sexual Abusers: Developmental Antecedents and Behavioral Comparisons
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Burton, David L.; Duty, Kerry Jo; Leibowitz, George S. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2011
This study compares sexually victimized and nonsexually victimized male adolescent sexual abusers on a number of variables. Self-report measures were administered to 325 male sexually abusive youth (average age 16) in six residential facilities in the Midwest, 55% of whom reported sexual victimization. The results indicate that the sexually…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Pornography, Victims of Crime, Sexual Abuse
Children without Permanent Parents: Research, Practice, and Policy
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Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Bos, Karen; Bunkers, Kelley McCreery; Dobrova-Krol, Natasha A.; Engle, Patrice L.; Fox, Nathan A.; Gamer, Gary N.; Goldman, Philip; Groark, Christina J.; Greenberg, Aaron; Grotevant, Harold D.; Groza, Victor K.; Gunnar, Megan R.; Johnson, Dana E.; Juffer, Femmie; Kreppner, Jana M.; Le Mare, Lucy; McCall, Robert B.; Muhamedrahimov, Rifkat J.; Nelson, Charles A., III; Palacios, Jesus; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Tieman, Wendy; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Vorria, Panayiota; Zeanah, Charles H. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2011
This monograph reviews literature pertaining to children without permanent parents. Chapters review (1) the development of children while institutional residents; (2) the development of postinstitutionalized children transitioned to family environments (i.e., adoption); the effects of institutionalization on (3) attachment behaviors, (4) physical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Childrens Rights, Child Welfare, Young Children
The Kindergarten in Benevolent Institutions. Bulletin, 1914, No. 29. Whole Number 603
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
The essential importance of the kindergarten in every institution which has the care of children and its value in simplifying administration and in making the work of healing, training, or correction easier, quicker, and more permanent, appear clearly in the excerpts provided in this bulletin from letters sent to the Bureau of Education, in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Child Development, Hospitals, Young Children