Blogpost by Neil Datta Secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights Gilead, Margaret Atwood’s authoritarian dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale where women’s role is reduced to forced procreation, has served as powerful symbol for progressive groups around the world in denouncing the erosion of human rights, specifically women’s rights. And Poland […]
BLOG: U.S federal law make the parents pay for foster care. The intention is to make foster care shorter – but do the law work according to the intention? [1] 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, […]
New article by Audun Løvlie and Marit Skivenes About one third of all referrals to the Norwegian Child Protection System concerns observed violence or fear of violence, including sexual abuse. Moreover, children and young people’s self-reporting indicate that one in five have experienced violence from a parent. In cases of violence, public authorities may […]
New article by PhD Candidate Hege Stein Helland: By utilising theories of deliberation and rational argumentation, this article critically analyses the Norwegian Supreme Court’s best interest decisions in four judgments on adoption from care. How does the Supreme Court reason their decisions and are the decisions rational? The findings show that the decisions are […]
BLOG: When asked by researchers, most children in long-term foster care or adoptive families want more rather than less contact with some birth family members and former foster carers. How can we prevent these children from having ‘searching’ anxieties and help them maintain a sense of ‘connectedness’? June Thoburn is an […]
BLOG: Parents often deny that their children are subject to physical and psychological violence – even when confronted with facts and evidence. What do care order cases tell us about these situations and how do decision-makers assess these serious, disturbing, and difficult cases? Blogpost by Professor Marit Skivenes, Director of Centre for Research on Discretion […]
BLOG: What are the implications of social media abuse and harassment for child protection workers? Blogpost by Kenneth Burns, collaborative partner at DIPA and senior lecturer at University College Cork. Child protection and social media There are a myriad positive uses of social media and online platforms to enhance our personal and community relationships, to foster […]
Elaine Sutherland (2021)
BLOG: When the Scottish Government attempted to take proactive child protection to a new level, it faced considerable – and, ultimately, effective – opposition. Blogpost by Elaine E. Sutherland, Professor II at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, Professor Emerita at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and Distinguished Professor Emerita at Lewis & […]
BLOG: Lack of data on children is an issue of major concern and weakens the protection of children’s rights worldwide. Blogpost by Jenny Krutzinna, Senior Researcher at the DIPA-centre (jenny.krutzinna@uib.no). For years, UNICEF has been calling on world leaders to invest in better data on children, warning in particular about missing data concerning half of the child-related Sustainable […]
BLOG: It is time for schools and social care facilities to elicit the voices of all children systematically and continuously. Blogpost by Rami Benbenishty, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ramibenben@gmail.com). The Corona crisis demonstrated how children were not part of the public health decision making and discourse. In a time […]
“Under His Eye”: Poland inches closer to Gilead as it targets children and families
