...This chapter introduces the study: how the young people in the study were identified and their childhood journeys growing up in different types of care. The memories of entering care and their childhood memories in children’s homes, in foster care or in adoption are aided by many powerful quotes...

... lives of quiet desperation. The chapter draws on a number of studies conducted by the authors, in particular a detailed study of families and their experiences of welfare services; and an enquiry on the role of the social worker in adoption, ethics, and human rights, which looked at the perspectives...

...This chapter examines international adoption and child trafficking in Ecuador. International adoption involves a number of policy, service, and legal actors operating within a policy and legal framework. Where officials are corrupt (even if, in their defence, they are driven to be so by their own...

... family. If they become state wards, the child welfare institution tries to arrange adoption. Otherwise, the most common forms of alternative care are institutional care or foster care. The chapter shows the significance of how alternative care is organized as it affects the childhood experience...

...This chapter examines two recursive approaches to the study of technology adoption within families and the life course: actor network theory (ANT) and strong structuration theory (SST). These recursive approaches explain the reciprocal relationship between social structure and agency in the context...

...This chapter reports on the design and implementation of cross-disciplinary research methods for investigating technology adoption in later life as well as family and life course dynamics. Drawing on a mixed methods, action research project on technology and social connectedness, facilitated...

... on the fact of child trafficking, with numerous forms of child exploitation as the end purpose of trafficking, including sexual exploitation, labour exploitation/forced labour, drug trafficking/smuggling/dealing, illegal adoption, servile/forced marriage, and begging. There remain arguments about definition...

... motherhood parenthood Phoenix A Thomson R adoption Against All Odds? study corporate parenting Evaluation of Pause study family practices family at a distance fatherhood identity imagined futures removal of children from parental care stigma Bertilsdotter Rosqvist H Dolbin MacNab M L...

... Knepper P ASB anti social behaviour Cameron David sanctioning and penalties terrorism workfare punishment stigmatisation welfare reform Scotland Gove Michael Germany Donelan Michelle alternative trajectories Family Social Policy Family Support Criminalisation Adoption Adverse Childhood...

...This chapter familiarises the reader with messages from international research in different types of placement: residential care, foster care, domestic adoption (in Romania) and international adoption (from Romania). It places the messages from research into the current context of adults who grew...

... technology adoption within family and the life course; the use of communication technologies such as emailing and texting for the maintenance of intergenerational solidarity; the impact of ICTs on storytelling processes among transnational families; and how ICTs affect the permeability of work–family borders...

... homelessness looked after children mental health NEETs Scotland Wales England Northern Ireland substance misuse child maltreatment age benefits gender Hill L asylum seekers ethnicity teenage pregnancy unaccompanied asylum seeking children UASC adoption Craine N Rock S Berridge D Jones R...

.... The book adds another dimension to human rights-based policymaking with gendered regulatory policy embodied in criminalization statutes and redistributive policy with victims’ service laws by exploring factors that promote and impede policy adoption. Using a mixed method approach, the book uniquely...

... education. After social work training and practice experience in India and the USA, she held leadership roles at the Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the Indian University Grants Commission. Areas of social work important in her career included adoption...

...This chapter discusses the policy, practice, and attitudes that can restrict information for adopted people who seek access to adoption agency records. It focuses on the ‘closed’ adoptions of the 1950s–1970s – many of whose subjects are now seeking to trace their origins. The chapter illustrates...

...This chapter considers the issue of intercountry adoption. It presents an almost bewildering range of statistics and adoption patterns that is both comprehensive and surprising. Its conclusions are sobering — that demand for children internationally far outstrips the number of children available...

...This chapter presents a case study concerning the author's social work experience with thirteen-year-old Eve who was placed for adoption with her half-brother eleven-year-old Simon. It explains that Eve's parents have become increasingly concerned about her unpredictable mood swings and that she...

...This chapter presents a case study concerning the author's social work experience with the Phillips family. It explains that Alan and Melissa Phillips have made an application to adopt to the voluntary children's agency specialising in adoption and it was author's responsibility to assess...

... experiences lived by those who are not cared for by their parents? This chapter is rich in quotes providing insights into how the young people in the study recalled their teenage years in residential care, foster care, domestic adoption and intercountry adoption, how they made sense of their circumstances...

...Shortly after the Berlin Wall came down and after the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations, images of malnourished children in institutions in Romania were broadcast by international media. They showed inhumane conditions in which children were living...