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Adoption from Care

NEW BOOK: International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention.
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Changes in Child-Protection Systems?

NEW ARTICLE: Katre Luhamaa explores whether international human-rights supervision are triggering changes in child-protection systems.
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Solidarity with Care-leaver Mothers

NEW ARTICLE: Jenny Krutzinna explores the dilemma between protecting children and safeguarding mothering opportunities for care-experienced mothers.
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Services to Vulnerable Families

ARTICLE: Study of services and support for mothers and newborn babies in vulnerable situations in eight European jurisdictions.
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Reporting Corporal Punishment

NEW ARTICLE: Study of population attitudes towards corporal punishment in five European countries.
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The Importance of Parental Commitment

NEW ARTICLE: Decision-makers exercise of discretion in decisions on adoption from care.
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Family life for children in state care

NEW ARTICLE: Analysis shows that the status and respect of the child’s de facto family life is increasing.
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Children are not sufficiently involved

NEW ARTICLE: Many children are absent in the decision-maker’s justification and conclusion about adoption, finds Skivenes & McEwan-Strand.
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Judging Parental Competence

ARTICLE: Krutzinna & Skivenes analyse judicial decision makers’ assessment of mothers’ parenting capacities in newborn removal cases.
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Assessments of future parenting

ARTICLE: New study presents needed insights into how legal decision-makers in Norway justify care orders of newborn children.
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Research Centre at the University of Bergen. We study government’s use of power towards its citizens, and justifications thereof. Focus on children's rights and child protection.

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Christies gate 17

5007 Bergen

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University of Bergen

Department of Administration
and Organization Theory
C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway