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Are the World's Richest Countries Family Friendly? Policy in the OECD and EU
Children get a better start in life and parents are better able to balance work and home commitments in countries that have family-friendly policies. These include paid parental leave, support for breastfeeding and affordable, high-quality childcare and p
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Better Parenting Curriculum Nigeria
The ability to parent well is not necessarily intuitive – an individual’s parenting style is influenced by aspects of his or her own history, personality and temperament, together with characteristics of the child, such as age or temperament. Class, cultu
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Caregiver Psychosocial Wellbeing and Family Violence: A scoping review of factors that affect the wellbeing of children in humanitarian crisis
Children make up more than 50% of the population affected by humanitarian crisis. Although it has been shown that a stable, nurturing and safe home environment can help mitigate the negative effects of ambient violence and instability, with deteriorating
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Parenting Interventions: How well do they transport from one country to another?
UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti has worked on research related to support for families and parents since 2013. In particular, Innocenti supported research on the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme for Parents and Teens by partnering with Oxford Univ
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Better Parenting Plus: Community discussion guide (Uganda)
The Better Parenting Plus Community Discussion Guide is intended to facilitate guided discussions and learning by parents, caregivers and others, all of whom are members of SILC (Savings and Internal Lending Communities). The focus is on improving parenti
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Does Parent's Psychological Distress Mediate the Relationship Between War Trauma and Psychosocial Adjustment in Children?
This study investigated the impact of war trauma on behavioral and emotional disorders, and neuroticism in children by prospectively examining the potential mediator and/or moderator effects of parental psychological distress. The sample consisted of 205
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Child Protection Sessions for Caregivers and Parents. Training Toolkit [Lebanon]
These sessions are designed to help parents to better care for their children and to protect them from all forms of violence. This tool has adapted by Save the Children to the Lebanon context. It is based on a tool developed in Jordan as part of an intera
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Queriendo se entiende la familia: Guía de intervención sobre parentalidad positiva para profesionales
Queriendo se entiende la familia: Guía de intervención sobre parentalidad positiva para profesionales, is a positive parenting intervention guide developed by Save the Children Spain. The guide is intended for professionals with training in the educat
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Child Protection Sessions for Parents and Caregivers. Training Toolkit
This toolkit was originally created for Jordan, with special emphasis on Syrian refugees, but the issues dealt with in the toolkit can be applied to any country. The development of this tool was an interagency initiative led by Save the Children Internati
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Practitioner Review: Engaging fathers—Recommendations for a game change in parenting interventions based on a systematic review of the global evidence
Despite robust evidence of fathers’ impact on children and mothers, engaging with fathers is one of the least well-explored and articulated aspects of parenting interventions. It is therefore critical to evaluate implicit and explicit biases manifested in
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A Guide to building healthy parent-child relationships: A positive rights-based approach
Save the Children works towards eliminating all forms of corporal or physical punishment and other humiliating or degrading punishment of children in all settings. For this reason, Save the Children Italy, Save the Children Lithuania, Save the Children Ro
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Consultations with children on their priorities for the post-MDG framework
In late 2012 and early 2013, consultations were held in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi with boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 17 years who were living without parental care. Participating children were living in the following circumstances: 1. those livin