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Caring for Orphaned Children in China (Hardcover)
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Caring for Orphaned Children in China (Hardcover)
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International media regularly features horrific stories about
Chinese orphanages, especially when debating international adoption
and human rights. Much of the popular information is dated and
ill-informed about the experiences of most orphans in China today,
Chinese government policy, and improvements evident in parts of
China. Informal kinship care is the most common support for the
orphaned children. The state supports orphans and abandoned
children whose parents and relatives cannot be found or contacted.
The book explores concrete examples about the changing experiences
and future directions of Chinese child welfare policy. It is about
the support to disadvantaged children, including abandoned children
in the care of the state, most of whom have disabilities; HIV
affected children; and orphans in kinship care. It identifies how
many orphans are in China, how they are supported, the extent to
which their rights are met, and what efforts are made to improve
their rights and welfare provision. When our research about Chinese
orphans started in 2001, these children were almost entirely
voiceless. Since then, the Chinese government has committed to
improving child welfare. We argue that a mixed welfare system, in
which state provision supplements family and community care, is an
effective direction to improve support for orphaned children.
Government needs to take responsibility to guarantee orphans'
rights as children, and support family networks to provide care so
that children can grow up in their own communities. The book
contributes to academic and policy understanding of the steps that
have been taken and are still required to achieve the goal of a
child welfare system in China that meets the rights of orphans to
live and thrive with other children in a family.
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