| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 235 pages ): color illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Voices from the Silentn Cradles: Life Histories of Romania's Looked- After Children -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Structure of the book -- 2 Romania: what underlay the orphan crisis -- Children's institutionalisation policy before 1989 -- The orphanage crisis and the response from the West -- Romania's accession into the European Union -- a game changer -- 3 Where do children go when they can't stay with their families? -- Introduction -- What do we know about residential care? |
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What do we know about foster care? -- Is adoption the gold standard in child protection? -- The controversy of intercountry adoption -- Are some types of placement better than others? -- So, what are we missing? -- 4 Childhoods in care -- Introduction -- The young people in the study -- Recruitment from residential care -- Recruitment of research participants with foster care experience -- Recruitment for research of domestic adoption -- Recruitment for research into intercountry adoption -- Visualising care trajectories -- UNCRC and the protection of children in care |
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Young people's experiences in residential care -- Young people's experiences in small group homes -- Young people's experiences in foster care -- Growing up as an adoptee in Romania -- 'The rescued orphans': growing up in intercountry adoption -- Experiences across the different types of care -- 5 Teen years in care and their ways out -- Introduction -- Adolescence and embarking into adulthood from residential care -- Adolescence and embarking into adulthood from foster care -- Adolescence and embarking into adulthood as an adoptee in Romania -- A few final remarks |
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6 Exploring life trajectories: what mattered to them -- Introduction -- Exploring outcomes and features of residential care -- Exploring outcomes and features of foster care -- Exploring outcomes and features of adoption -- What mattered in the end? -- Reflecting on 'becoming' after care -- 7 The benefit of hindsight: learning for policy and practice -- Implications for further research and practice -- Can we get 'care' right and if so, how? -- Moving away from where children in care live to how they live -- The deinstitutionalisation policy: a red herring? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References |
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Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
This book explores what happened to the 'Romanian orphans' of the 1990s, including those who stayed in institutions as well as those who were fostered and adopted domestically and internationally. Looking in detail at their experiences, the book provides valuable new evidence on what is important for children in care today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Orphans -- Romania
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Foster children -- Romania
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Abandoned children -- Romania
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Children -- Institutional care -- Romania
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Foster children -- Deinstitutionalization -- Romania
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Abandoned children -- Deinstitutionalization -- Romania
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Abandoned children
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Children -- Institutional care
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Foster children
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Orphans
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Romania
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781447358015 |
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1447358015 |
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9781447358008 |
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1447358007 |
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