World Family Map 2014: Mapping Family Change and Child Well-being Outcomes
Child Trends | 01 May 2014 | 8.9 MB
The second annual edition of the World Family Map investigates how family characteristics affect children’s healthy development around the globe and includes a new essay focusing on union stability and early childhood health in developing countries. View document

United Nations General Assembly 2013 Resolution on the 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family
United Nations | 18 December 2013 | 339 KB
The United Nations General Assembly adopted on the 18th December 2013 a resolution on Preparations for and observance of the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family. View document

Ending the Placement of Children under Three in Institutions: Report from the International Ministerial Conference, Sofia, November 2012.
UNICEF | 01 October 2013 | 1.6 MB
This Report from the international ministerial conference, held in Sofia, 21–22 November 2012, entitled 'Ending the placement of children under three in institutions: support nurturing families for all young children', brings together the presentations, political commitments and priority actions identified by the participants, including 20 governments from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. View document

Le Renforcement des Systèmes de Protection de l'Enfance en Afrique SubSaharienne: Un Appel a l'Action
Déclaration conjointe inter-agences* (liste en bas de page) | 01 April 2013 | 893 KB
Cette déclaration conjointe inter-agences a pour but de (i) de présenter une vision commune des systèmes de protection de l’enfance en Afrique subsaharienne et d’expliquer pourquoi ils sont importants et méritent des investissements et (ii) lancer un appel à l’action auprès des gouvernements, à l’Union africaine, aux communautés économiques régionales, aux institutions multilatérales, aux bailleurs de fonds, au secteur privé, aux institutions académiques, aux organisations de la société civile, aux communautés et aux groupes d’enfants et de jeunes organisés. View document

Guide to Implementing Family Skills Training Programmes for Drug Abuse Prevention
UNODC | 01 March 2009 | 905 KB
UNODC published Guidelines to implement family skills training programmes for drug abuse prevention in March 2009. These guidelines contain evidence of effectiveness, principles of family skills training programmes, cultural adaptation guidelines, advice on how to recruit and retain families through the programmes, practical advice on training of staff, as well as information about monitoring and evaluating family skills training programmes. View document

The Parenting Gap
Richard V. Reeves and Kimberly Howard | 09 September 2013 | 467 KB
This paper by the Brookings Center on Children and Families examine the scope of parenting interventions in the US that directly address poor parenting, as research has found how much parenting matters. View document

World Report on Disability 2011
World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank | 2011 | 10.9 MB
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. This report provides the best available evidence about what works to overcome barriers to health care, rehabilitation, education, employment, and support services, and to create the environments which will enable people with disabilities to flourish. The report ends with a concrete set of recommended actions for governments and their partners. View document

Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
Jack Shonkoff, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University; Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) | 01 May 2013
This 5-minute animated video depicts a theory of change for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and families. It describes the need to focus on building the capabilities of caregivers and strengthening the communities that together form the environment of relationships essential to children’s lifelong learning, health, and behavior. View document

The Neglect of Child Neglect: A meta-analytic review of the prevalence of neglect
Marije Stoltenborgh, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg , and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn | 15 July 2012 | 302 KB
This article describes the results of a meta-analytic review aimed at providing an estimate of the prevalence of physical and emotional neglect by integrating prevalence figures from the body of research reporting on neglect. It discusses and makes recommendations on the dearth of studies investigating the prevalence of child neglect, despite evidence of its severe consequences on millions of children, and a global prevalence estimated to be above 15%.
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The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and implications for prevention
Xiangming Fang, Derek S. Brown, Curtis S. Florence, James A. Mercy | 01 February 2012 | 358 KB
This paper presents new estimates of the average lifetime cost per child maltreatment (CM) victim in the United States and aggregate lifetime costs for all new cases of CM incurred in 2008 using an incidence-based approach. The authors find that the lifetime economic burden of CM is approximately $124 billion. Given this substantial economic burden, the authors argue that the benefits of prevention will likely outweigh the costs for effective programs. View document