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Family: Growing up family-based care makes a world of a diference
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Worldwide millions of children and youth live in institutions that may not provide basic
conditions for good-enough care, and these numbers are predicted to increase drastically
because of the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and wars raging in several parts of the world.
We show that three conditions are essential: safe, stable, and shared care (Triple S care). Safe
care means a caregiving environment free from child abuse or neglect; stable care implies a
minimum number of separations from caregivers; and shared care entails support from a small
network of 'alloparents' to alleviate caregiving tasks. With empirical and meta-analytic results
from our studies over more than 30 years on institutionalization we demonstrate that
institutions, including small ones like SOS Children Villages, cannot provide safe, stable, and
shared care, and lead to substantial delays in development, not only for physical health but also
for mental health and neurocognitive growth. The good news however is that children can
recover from the setbacks of institutional care when they move to family-based environments,
such as foster or adoptive care, kinship care, or Kafalah. Abolition of institutions does not
automatically lead to better care. De-institutionalization can only succeed if the transition to
family-based care is supported by policies that promote safe, stable, and shared alternative care.
Facilitating and monitoring the transition to family-based care should be paramount in policies
for children and youth without parental care
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Institution Residential care Foster care Adoption Alternative care SOSCV
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Citação
Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2024). Family matters: Growing up in family-based care makes a world of a difference. Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Medical Sciences, 73(1). https://doi.org/10.25040/ntsh2024.01.05
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Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University