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The Ultimate Denial of Children’s Rights

BLOG: Voices in the US are advocating to abolish child welfare. This is a dangerous and irresponsible suggestion.
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Øyvind S. Tefre Defended his PhD Thesis

PHD: Why is adoption rarely used in Norwegian child protection, but widely used in the United States?
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Adoption from Care or Not?

BLOG: What do children say about 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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Trust in the Norwegian Child Protection System

VIDEO: Marit Skivenes in conversation with judge Arnfinn Bårdsen from the European Court of Human Rights.
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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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Why Don’t Children Participate?

BLOG: An ongoing puzzle is to explain why children in the child protection system are not participating as the Convention of […]
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Protecting Children, Creating Citizens

VIDEO: Recording of the webinar on children’s participation is now available.
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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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Awarded the Peder Sather Grant

NEW PROJECT: Marit Skivenes and Jill D. Berrick are awarded a research grant to study cross-national experiences of foster care […]
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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

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C/O Marit Skivenes

P.O: 7802, 5020 Bergen
Norway

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Marit Skivenes

Phone:
+47 959 24 979
+47 55 58 25 87

E-mail:
Marit.Skivenes@uib.no