Without a Family Orphans of the Postwar Period

Abstract

The article examines the situation in post-World War II Soviet orphanages and concludes that there, as elsewhere, the level of care offered to abandoned children depended greatly on the material resources available to society at large.

The long-term impact of early parental death: lessons from a narrative study

Objective To explore the individual experiences of those who had experienced the death of a parent(s) before the age of…

Mortality after Parental Death in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study from Three Nordic Countries

Background Bereavement by spousal death and child death in adulthood has been shown to lead to an increased risk of mortality.…

Death and Divorce: The Long‐Term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents

Two quasi‐experiments are used to estimate the impact of parental divorce on the adult labor market and marital/fertility…

THE SUSTAINABILITY OF KINSHIP FOSTER CARE SYSTEM IN ZIMBABWE: A STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS CARING FOR ORPHANS AND OTHER VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN BIKITA

ACT Most Zimbabweans, like other people in the Southern Africa region, have suffered in a number of ways as a result of…

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