A new study shows that children adopted early from foster care didn't differ from children who were raised in their birth families but that children adopted from institutional care performed worse ...

Infants who grew up in early child care institutions in the 1950s have a much shorter life expectancy than the general population, a long-term study of individuals in Zurich has shown. For the first ...

Institutional care for young children can impact on their health later on. Sad girl via Yuliya Evstratenko/www.shutterstock.com As human beings we are born helpless ...

Infants who grew up in early child care institutions in the 1950s have a much shorter life expectancy than the general population, according to a long-term study of individuals in Zurich. For the ...

New research, published online today in the American Journal of Psychiatry, provides the most robust and comprehensive evidence to date that children exposed to early psychosocial deprivation benefit ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s national apology to the victims of child sexual abuse was a moment of reckoning for the government – an admission of the country’s failures to protect children from ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to Lumos’ “Global Call for Evidence on the links between Children’s Institutional Care and Education.” From 2014-2021, Human Rights Watch ...

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The benefits of expanding funding for Medicaid long-term care home and community-based services (HCBS) relative to institutional care are often taken as self-evident. However, little is known about ...