Abandoned Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abandoned Children write by Catherine Panter-Brick. This book was released on 2000-08-03. Abandoned Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection on abandoned children illustrating the need to contextualise their position in particular cultural situations.
Romania’s Abandoned Children
Romania’s Abandoned Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romania’s Abandoned Children write by Charles A. Nelson. This book was released on 2014-01-06. Romania’s Abandoned Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The implications of early experience for children's brain development, behavior, and psychological functioning have long absorbed caregivers, researchers, and clinicians. The 1989 fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in 700 overcrowded, impoverished institutions across Romania, and prompted the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of institutionalization on children's well-being. Romania's Abandoned Children, the authoritative account of this landmark study, documents the devastating toll paid by children who are deprived of responsive care, social interaction, stimulation, and psychological comfort. Launched in 2000, the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) was a rigorously controlled investigation of foster care as an alternative to institutionalization. Researchers included 136 abandoned infants and toddlers in the study and randomly assigned half of them to foster care created specifically for the project. The other half stayed in Romanian institutions, where conditions remained substandard. Over a twelve-year span, both groups were assessed for physical growth, cognitive functioning, brain development, and social behavior. Data from a third group of children raised by their birth families were collected for comparison. The study found that the institutionalized children were severely impaired in IQ and manifested a variety of social and emotional disorders, as well as changes in brain development. However, the earlier an institutionalized child was placed into foster care, the better the recovery. Combining scientific, historical, and personal narratives in a gripping, often heartbreaking, account, Romania's Abandoned Children highlights the urgency of efforts to help the millions of parentless children living in institutions throughout the world.
Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance
Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance write by Nicholas Terpstra. This book was released on 2020-04-07. Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity. Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, others orphaned. At a time when political rulers fashioned themselves as the "fathers" of society, these cast-off children presented a very immediate challenge and opportunity. In Bologna and Florence, government and private institutions pioneered orphanages to care for the growing number of homeless children. Nicholas Terpstra discusses the founding and management of these institutions, the procedures for placing children into them, the children's daily routine and education, and finally their departure from these homes. He explores the role of the city-state and considers why Bologna and Florence took different paths in operating the orphanages. Terpstra finds that Bologna's orphanages were better run, looked after the children more effectively, and were more successful in returning their wards to society as productive members of the city's economy. Florence's orphanages were larger and harsher, and made little attempt to reintegrate children into society. Based on extensive archival research and individual stories, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance demonstrates how gender and class shaped individual orphanages in each city's network and how politics, charity, and economics intertwined in the development of the early modern state.
Abandoned Children
Abandoned Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abandoned Children write by Rachel Ginnis Fuchs. This book was released on 1984-01-01. Abandoned Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kind / Fürsorge / Geschichte.
Russia's Abandoned Children
Russia's Abandoned Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia's Abandoned Children write by Clementine K. Fujimura. This book was released on 2005-09-30. Russia's Abandoned Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fujimura takes us across history and into Russian society, its orphanages and shelters, and along the streets of the nation to see how abandoned children are stigmatized and shunned. Readers come to understand how and why these children, left orphans by death or by choice, form their own culture to find power and to survive. This pioneering work on child abandonment looks at Russian society from a new angle: from the perspectives of abandoned youngsters and their caretakers. Based on direct observation of and interviews with abandoned children, this work shows why any effort to rescue these children calls for a deep understanding of Russian culture, and why any effort to address abandonment in Russia calls for a joint effort between psychologists, social workers, and the children themselves. Researcher Fujimura takes us across history, into Russian society, its orphanages and shelters, and along the streets of the nation to see how abandoned children are stigmatized and shunned. We also come to understand how and why these children, left orphans by death or by choice, form their own culture to find power and to survive. This pioneering work on child abandonment looks at Russian society from a new angle: from the perspectives of abandoned youngsters and their caretakers. Based on direct observation of and interviews with abandoned children, this work shows why any effort to rescue these children calls for a deep understanding of Russian culture, and why any effort to affect abandonment in Russia calls for a joint effort between psychologists, social workers, and the children themselves.
