Children Without Permanent Parents: Research, Practice, and Policy

Abstract

Background to this Monograph

I. Children in Institutional Care: Delayed Development and Resilience

II. Development of Adopted Children with Histories of Early Adversity

III. Attachment and Emotional Development in Institutional Care: Characteristics and Catch Up

IV. Growth Failure in Institutionalized Children

V. The Neurobiological Toll of Early Human Deprivation

VI. Sensitive Periods

VII. Ideal Components and Current Characteristics of Alternative Care Options for Children Outside of Parental Care in Low-Resource Countries

VIII. The Situtation for Children Without Parental Care and Strategies for Policy Change

IX. Research, Practice, and Policy Perspectives on Issues of Children without Permanent Parental Care

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