Will the U.S. Abolition Narrative Make its Way to Europe?
Jill D. Berrick (2024)
BLOG: Forces in the U.S. are calling for the abolition of the child protection system. Could Europe be next? Blog post by Jill Duerr Berrick, Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley, and Professor II at the Department of Government, University of Bergen The national mood in the U.S. is sour. Deep political divisions have riven the […]
Do young wives have agency?
Larissa Cristina Margarido (2023)
One of the most interesting – albeit challenging – parts of researching child marriage in Brazil is recognizing the need for a more nuanced, dynamic, and critical understanding of children’s agency. Unfortunately, we are still quite distant from it by PhD candidate Larissa Cristina Margarido, FGV Sao Paulo Law School How are sexual and family practices […]
Child Protection in post-Soviet countries: Child rights friendly?
Victoria Shmidt (2023)
BLOG: There has been a shift in many post-Soviet countries’ efforts to improve the protection of children’s rights in child protection, resulting in fewer children in residential care. However, there are still challenges for ensuring the sustainable implementation of children’s rights. Blog post by Postdoc Victoria Shmidt, UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ Child protection in the fifteen […]
How ‘child life specialists’ secure children’s rights to participation
BLOG: Fulfilling children´s right to participate and be involved in complex settings such as hospital treatment, child protection, court proceedings, is difficult to realize. However, in the health sector the support of a psychosocial professional is a promising solution to securing children’s rights that may be considered within in other sectors. Blog post by Amarens […]
Can accountability promote participation for children?
Audun Løvlie (2023)
BLOG: Children and parents subjected to state interventions experience significant disruption in their lives. They may face many challenges, such as barriers to participation and a lack of comprehension of the reasons for the intervention. The written decisions of judges may serve participation by facilitating comprehension, and thus acceptance, of the reasons for such life-transforming decisions, […]
Jill Duerr Berrick (2022)
Blogpost by Jill Duerr Berrick, Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor at U.C. Berkeley, U.S., and Professor II at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, UiB, Norway. How can we help parents and children to reunify after a child protection removal of a child? Sadly, very few programs and services available for professionals today can document […]
Family connections for children in long-term care, guardianship or open adoption
Wright, Amy Conley and Judy Cashmore (2022)
New blogpost by Professor Amy Conley Wright & Professor Judy Cashmore, Research Centre for Children and Families, The University of Sydney. In Australia there is developed a comprehensive set of tools to facilitate and ensure positive, safe and child-centred relationships for children in care and their birth family, that other countries may benefit from. The […]
Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe, Marit Skivenes (2022)
Journal of Social Policy
New article by Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe and Marit Skivenes Professor Marit Skivenes and colleagues at UC Berkeley, USA, examine the normative basis for limiting parents’ freedom by exploring public attitudes about a child’s safety in the context of increasing risk in Norway and California (USA). Access the article here:
New article by Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe and Marit Skivenes Professor Marit Skivenes and colleagues at UC Berkeley, USA, compare citizens’ rights orientations in context of child protection in Norway and California (USA). The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) emphasize the universality of human rights for all children, regardless of political, social, […]
Those that challenges state authority
BLOG: Those that challenges state authority – The critics of the welfare state and the child protection system are diverse with a range of motives for their engagement. Blogpost by Yngve Nedrebø (Historian, Chair of Human Rights – Norway). I have always been genuinely concerned with how research ought to be representative, ethical, and critical. […]