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The Development of Child Protection Systems in the Post-Soviet States

Author : Ilze Earner

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 207 pages

File Size : 10,94 MB

Release : 2021-04-16

Category : Education

ISBN : 3030595889

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This volume provides an understanding of how systems of child protection evolve in disparate cultural, social and economic contexts. Using the former Soviet Union as a starting point, it examines how 13 countries have developed, defined and evolved their system of protecting children and providing services to families over the last 25 years since independence. The volume runs an uniform approach in each country and then traces the development of unique systems, contributing to the international understanding of child protection and welfare. This volume is a fascinating study for social scientists, social workers, policy makers with particular interest to those focusing on children, youth, and family issues alike as each chapter offers a clear and compelling view of the central changes, competing claims and guiding assumptions that have formed each countries individual approach to child protection and family services.



Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space

Author : Meri Kulmala

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 40,4 MB

Release : 2020-09-24

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1000193667

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This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major shift in Russia’s child welfare policy: deinstitutionalisation of the system of children’s homes inherited from the Soviet era and an increase in fostering and adoption. Divided into four sections, this book details both the changing role and function of residential institutions within the Russian child welfare system and the rapidly developing form of alternative care in foster families, as well as work undertaken with birth families. By analysing the consequences of deinstitutionalisation and its effects on children and young people as well as their foster and birth parents, it provides a model for understanding this process across the whole of the post-Soviet space. It will be of interest to academics and students of social work, sociology, child welfare, social policy, political science, and Russian and East European politics more generally.



Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems

Author : Jill Duerr Berrick

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 1017 pages

File Size : 32,59 MB

Release : 2023-02-14

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0197503543

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"cross the spectrum of political ideologies there is, in principle, widespread agreement that the state has a legitimate role in protecting children from harm. Even the Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman (1962), among the most ardent liberal supporters of the laissez faire philosophy, recognized this "paternalistic" function of government. At the same time, the traditional view of children, that they are the property of the father (pater) or the parents, is under pressure (Zelizer, 1994; James & Prout, 1997; Archard 2004). Societies are at an intersection when it comes to how children are treated and how their rights are respected, which creates tensions in the traditional relationship between the family and the state. Children are a focus of government responsibility under certain state-defined norms relating to harm and need. And parents are sometimes constrained by the state from exercising their (familial or property) rights under state-defined criteria of harm and need"--



Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Author : Michael Rasell

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 16,58 MB

Release : 2013-11-26

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1317962206

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There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It covers, historically, the origins of legacies that continue to affect well-being and policy in the region today. Discussions of disability in culture and society highlight the broader conditions in which disabled people must build their identities and well-being whilst in-depth biographical profiles outline what living with disabilities in the region is like. Chapters on policy interventions, including international influences, examine recent reforms and the difficulties of implementing inclusive, community-based care. The book will be of interest both to regional specialists, for whom well-being, equality and human rights are crucial concerns, and to scholars of disability and social policy internationally.



Advocating for Children and Families in an Emerging Democracy

Author : Judy W. Kugelmass

Publisher : IAP

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 44,75 MB

Release : 2003-02-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1617352438

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Mission Statement: This book investigates issues surrounding the creation of social policy and support systems for children and families in this emerging democracy. Approaches advocated by progressively oriented Lithuanian educators, mental health and human service professionals toward addressing these conditions are presented by Lithuanian and American educators and mental health practitioners who have been working toward the development of democratically based social institutions.



Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children

Author : Marit Skivenes

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 33,87 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0190205296

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The book examines where, why and to what extent immigrant children are represented in the child welfare system in 11 high-income countries. By comparing policies and practices in child welfare systems (and welfare states), especially in terms of how they conceptualize and deal with immigrant children and their families, we address an immensely important and pressing issue in modern societies.



Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine

Author : Sarah D. Phillips

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 20,94 MB

Release : 2008-06-25

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0253219922

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Considers democratization, privatization, and women's lives in postcolonial Ukraine.



Lost to the State

Author : Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 401 pages

File Size : 24,51 MB

Release : 2010-12-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 184545863X

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Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. Therefore, the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of vulnerable ‘social orphans’, or children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care institutions, caught the public by surprise, leading to discussions of the role and place of childhood in the new society. Based on an in-depth study the author explores dissonance between new post-Soviet forms of family and economy, and lingering Soviet attitudes, revealing social orphans as an embodiment of a long-standing power struggle between the state and the family. The author uncovers parallels between (post-) Soviet and Western practices in child welfare and attitudes towards ‘bad’ mothers, and proposes a new way of interpreting kinship where the state is an integral member.



Moving from Residential Institutions to Community-based Social Services in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Author : David Tobis

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 76 pages

File Size : 23,29 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780821344903

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One of the most harmful, costly, and intractable legacies of the command economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is the reliance on residential institutions for the care of children, the elderly, and the people with disabilities. As a result, there are almost no community-based alternatives to care for large and growing numbers of vulnerable individuals. Other industrial nations have experienced similar periods of economic and social upheaval and also relied on residential institutions to care for vulnerable and marginalized groups. However, most of these nations have switched from residential care to community-based social services. The question for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is how they can make the same transition. 'Moving from Residential Institutions to Community-Based Social Services in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union' examines the use of residential institutions for vulnerable groups, past and present, and proposes strategies for the future. The study focuses on five countries, Albania, Armenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania, where the World Bank is helping develop community-based social services to reduce the reliance on residential institutions.



Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia

Author : Christian Aspalter

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 37,46 MB

Release : 2021-09-28

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1000451151

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This book identifies the main causes of welfare state system extension, as well as the differences in welfare state system design and their consequences for human behavior and the future financial stability of the systems in place in different parts of Asia. Providing ten in-depth country case studies from across the region, including India, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and South Korea, as well as Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, the book focuses on the situation of welfare state system development and its financing in some of the largest countries on earth. It addresses previously neglected areas for investigation, such as the causal reasons for welfare state system extension (not only in Asia, but in general), the types of social security systems and their incentive systems in place and the way they chiefly determine behavior—and thus determine the resulting social security needs. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, public policy, political science, sociology, finance and economics, development studies and Asian studies more broadly.