Forgotten Children Research Articles

Public Health's "Forgotten Children" of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Creating the Next Generation of Leaders in Serious Illness Care.

Public Health's "Forgotten Children" of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Creating the Next Generation of Leaders in Serious Illness Care.

The Nurse's Role in Supporting Psychosocial Care of "Forgotten Children".

The Nurse's Role in Supporting Psychosocial Care of "Forgotten Children".

Review: Ces enfants oubliés: Grandir dans une communauté sectaire (These Forgotten Children: Growing Up in a Sectarian Community), by Lorraine Derocher

These Forgotten Children is both a recovery guide aimed at those who have grown up in sectarian communities, and an instruction manual for people wishing to assist those individuals. Directed at parents, grandparents, educators, service providers, law enforcement, and other leaders, the book features advice from ten adult survivors of secte membership interviewed by the author—seven intensively—as well as reflections from dozens more with whom she was in contact, and insights from former cult members gleaned from books and articles.A member of McGill University’s Centre for Research on Children and Families, Lorraine Derocher has published extensively on the subject of cult membership, with a special focus on its effects on children. In contrast to her other publications, These Forgotten Children is clearly written for a general, rather than scholarly, audience. Call-outs, text boxes, lists, and other graphic elements break up the text and allow casual readers to dip into and out of the book.Chapter 3, however, addresses scholarly definitions of religion, new religious movements, and sectes (knowns as cults in English). Derocher debunks a list of common negative cult stereotypes, asserting, for example, that a guru is simply a spiritual master, not the head of a dangerous or criminal cult, and emphasizing that brainwashing is not a theory recognized by the scientific community. Nevertheless, she wishes to retain the word secte to describe a certain type of religious group, which she defines as an ideological movement, religious or not, closed in upon itself and that is opposed, in varying degrees, to the values of modern society (49). According to Derocher, a potentially dangerous secte does not merely separate itself from society, but rather effects a complete rupture by embracing a totalistic way of life at odds with the wider culture.Although the book advises parents and secte members, former and current, throughout, its concluding chapters present specific recommendations to those in the therapeutic community, government officials, and other leaders. In this way, it extends the research, and child advocacy work, of its author.

Engaging the Ethics of the Future: The Aftertimes as Emotional, Material and Temporal Accumulation in the Spanish Animation Film Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

In this essay I analyze the critically acclaimed movie, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, a dystopic animated film based on the graphic novel Psiconautas. It takes place on an island populated by anthropomorphic animals, most of them young, who live in a time after an industrial accident destroyed the livelihood of its inhabitants. Birdboy and some of his friends try to escape their reality either by taking drugs or by attempting to abandon the island, but they are hunted by police, by the gang of rats that inhabits the dump, and by their hallucinations. In the end, although they do not achieve their goals, Birdboy and his friend Dinky reunite in an inner paradise. Drawing on various theoretical approaches, such as Hannah Arendt’s notion of new beginnings and Timothy Morton’s sustained project of ecological critique, I study the ways Birdboy represents time and engages with the ethics of the future. Birdboy’s universe is marked by emotional, physical, and temporal accumulation. The interconnection of sentient and non-sentient beings on the island shows the impact of legacies and the difficulty of creating radical new beginnings. Birdboy’s story is ultimately a call for responsibility for the future rooted in the awareness that everything leaves a trace.

Forgotten Children: Rethinking the Individuals with Disabilites Education Act Behavior Provisions

Research consistently demonstrates that males – beginning when they are just young boys – externalize oppositional behavior to a markedly higher degree than females. In a school setting, this typically translates to male students being disciplined for even marginally unacceptable behavior more frequently, including frequent loss of educational days due to out-of-school suspensions. Yet it is likely that many of these same male students have identified disabilities under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), with Individualized Education Programs that can be personalized with sound, peer-reviewed behavioral services that can make a real difference. Behavior – and its impact on educational outcomes and eventually society – remains the forgotten child in efforts to meet the needs of these most emotionally vulnerable students. A lack of specifics in the behavior provisions of IDEA create an unhealthy tension, too limited either to serve our students or to inform educational practice. While states could remedy this problem, most do not. In an era when the federal government is moving to deregulate many industries – education among them – it is critical for state legislatures to clarify and expand their own requirements. This paper examines current law and proposes constructive change to deal with inequities for students with behavior challenges. Part I examines the IDEA provisions. Part II of this paper reviews the behavior provisions in IDEA. Part III focuses on state statutes and rules, identifying which states have taken the lead and including a determination of where the fifty states and the District of Columbia fall. Part IV analyzes similarities and differences in appellate court decisions of the eleven federal circuits from 2011 through 2016, when a major issue included a factual or legal determination of the Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Program (BIP) requirements. Finally, Part V, Rethinking IDEA, summarizes the impact on these forgotten children of IDEA, and recommends an approach for a model provision for Congress to adopt when IDEA is reauthorized.

When a child dies of heatstroke after a parent or caretaker unknowingly leaves the child in a car: How does it happen and is it a crime?

It is commonly reported that in the course of a drive, a parent or caretaker loses awareness of the presence of a child in the back seat of the car. Upon arriving at the destination, the driver exits the car and unknowingly leaves the child in the car. This incomprehensible lapse of memory exposes forgotten children to hazards, including death from heatstroke. More than 400 children in the past 20 years have suffered from heatstroke after being unknowingly forgotten in cars. How can loving and attentive parents, with no evidence of substance abuse or an organic brain disorder, have a catastrophic lapse of memory that places a child's welfare in jeopardy? This article addresses this question at multiple levels of analysis. First, it is concluded that the loss of awareness of a child in a car is a failure of a type of memory referred to as prospective memory (PM), that is, failure to remember to execute a plan in the future. Second, factors that increase the likelihood that PM will fail are identified. Third, research on the neurobiology of PM and PM-related memory failures are reviewed, including a discussion of how competition between brain structures contributes to a failure of PM. Finally, the issue of whether a failure of PM that results in harm to a child qualifies as a criminal offence is discussed. Overall, this neuropsychological perspective on how catastrophic memory errors occur should be of value to the scientific community, the public and law-enforcement agencies.

Hard Clay: Unearthing Alabama's Juvenile Justice History, They Had No Voice: My Fight for Alabama’s Forgotten Children, A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys’ Industrial School

Hard Clay: Unearthing Alabama's Juvenile Justice History, They Had No Voice: My Fight for Alabama’s Forgotten Children, A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys’ Industrial School

The forgotten children.

188 Background: The “forgotten children” of pediatric cancer are the siblings. There is a dearth of literature published on the effects of cancer on the siblings’ psychosocial state. Despite significant improvements made in the survival of pediatric cancer patients, the psychosocial health of the siblings remains the same. We hope to shed light on siblings, as well as recognize the emotional and psychological toll they endure as the “forgotten children.” Methods: Selective, narrative review of psychosocial consequences of being the siblings of children with cancer was performed from January 1980 through October 2016 using key words: pediatrics, oncology, psychosocial care, siblings, forgotten children, psycho-oncology, bereavement, caregivers. Results: Compared with siblings of children with other chronic illnesses, siblings of children with cancer endure more emotional distress and adaptive difficulties. From the moment the diagnosis is given, until their sibling’s death, siblings of children with cancer are unmoored. Throughout the cancer trajectory, they are isolated from support systems both inside and outside the family. They experience a wide spectrum of emotional turmoil from intrusive thoughts (anger, unworthiness, jealously, fear, loneliness or guilt), to post-traumatic growth (appreciation of life, desire to pay back society, greater self-knowledge). Since 1990s, various qualitative and quantitative studies have been published for siblings of children with cancer, but little has changed since these reports. Siblings continue to be the “forgotten children” in the family and their needs remain unmet. Siblings endure various distresses throughout the different stages of cancer trajectory. The complexity of the roots of their distress requires meticulous attention to dissect and unravel. Conclusions: Research on the psychosocial well-being for siblings of children with cancer remains limited. Consistencies with screening and supportive interventions continue to be lacking. A standardized screening tool with early interventional services should be implemented. Additionally, interdisciplinary awareness of the siblings’ psychosocial issues should be increased in order to shed light to their invisibility. The goal is to remember the “forgotten children.”

What is it like living in detention? Insights from asylum seeker children’s drawings

ABSTRACTDespite considerable research on the impact of Australia’s mandatory detention policy on children, there is sparse focus on asylum seeker children’s own perspectives of how they conceptualise their experiences of living in detention. We were curious to understand how children in detention would convey their views on their circumstances through the medium of drawing. This paper uses secondary data analysis to explore children’s perspectives by considering key themes from two drawings created by asylum seeker children in Australian immigration detention centres: one from the Australian Human Rights Commissions’ Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014 report, and another published in prominent Australian newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald. The focus on children’s first-hand experiences of mandatory detention through a non-invasive method conveyed a strong sense of isolation and ostracism, and revealed the mental health impacts on children and their families. These examples show that children were clearly able to convey how their rights were violated in the context of detention. Emerging themes highlight how children’s insightful perspectives of their own experiences are neglected in broader discourses, and provide a rationale for further visual research to provide nuanced understandings of asylum seeker wellbeing and children’s rights in particular.

Film Reviews: Franco’s Forgotten Children and Give Me Back My Child!

This Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Tampa Library at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact scholarcommons@usf.edu. Recommended Citation Amir, Ruth (2016) Film Reviews: Franco’s Forgotten Children and Give Me Back My Child!, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 10: Iss. 1: 124-128. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.10.1.1421

“Old Forgotten Children’s Books” at CUNY: Centro Library’s (Unofficial) Children’s Literature Collection

“Old Forgotten Children’s Books” at CUNY: Centro Library’s (Unofficial) Children’s Literature Collection

Sadness and fear: The experiences of children and families in remote Australian immigration detention.

In March 2014 we spent a week on Christmas Island as consultants to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Inquiry into the Impact of Immigration Detention on Children. We were accompanied by three AHRC staff. We had extensive access to detained families and children and conducted semi-structured and informal interviews with 230 people as individuals or in family or other groups. We met with staff of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) and ‘service providers’ including Serco, the multinational corporation that runs the detention facilities, International Health and Medical Service (IHMS) and the non-governmental organisation providing activities for unaccompanied children (Maximus). DIBP staff were present at all meetings except those with detainees. We used official interpreters for the majority of interviews but occasionally used other asylum seekers, including children to translate. The AHRC provided two debriefing sessions following our return. A report, ‘The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention’ was released by the AHRC to the Australian Government in November 2014, with public release in March 2015. In a separate paper, we focus on the unaccompanied children and younpeople detained in Immigration facilities on Christmas Island.

The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014

The aim of the Inquiry was not to reconsider the Human Rights Commission’s already formed legal views of immigration detention, but to investigate how the health, wellbeing and development of children was being affected by life in detention. Through visits to 11 different detention centres, the Commission conducted interviews with 1129 children and parents in immigration detention in Australia, using a standardised questionnaire. The Commission also conducted 104 interviews with people in the community who had formerly been detained; received 239 submissions; held five public hearings with 41 witnesses, and obtained data from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

Kinderen buiten beeld. De leefsituatie van ongedocumenteerde kinderen in Nederland

Kinderen buiten beeld. De leefsituatie van ongedocumenteerde kinderen in Nederland

The Forgotten Children in Australian Detention Centres before 2005

ACCORDING TO ARCHBISHOP Desmond M. Tutu it is the politicians who ultimately offer what people want, especially where children's rights are respected and protected. Articles 28 and 29 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child recognise the rights of children to education. Many people residing in Australia, and abroad, assume that all young Australian children's rights are respected and protected. However, there has been one identified group of young children, residing in Australia, whose rights have not been respected and protected. These young children were held in Australian detention centres. It was only after public pressure in July 2005 that all children and families were released from Australian detention centres. This paper focuses mainly on the lack of educational provisions for this identified population.

Forgotten Children – Addressing the Health Needs of Looked‐After Children and Young People

Forgotten Children – Addressing the Health Needs of Looked‐After Children and Young People

Adoptable but Still in Limbo: The Forgotten Children in Canada

Thousands of children in Canada are available for adoption, but not being adopted, while many Canadian families are adopting overseas. This study presents a model incorporating four explanatory factors for overseas adoption preferences, and reports on preliminary efforts to test the model. One frequently-heard explanation is that families wanting to adopt are only interested in healthy infants, while crown wards tend to be older children, many with special needs. A sample of 119 families who filled in questionnaires in response to a public awareness campaign did not fit this stereotype; many would be willing to consider a child with special needs, or an older child. Results of a focus group, made up mainly of adoption professionals, suggest that the most significant barriers to adoption may lie in the funding and organization of the agency system. Plans for future research are discussed.

Owning a Hearing Loss: Arming Students With Information and Support

No AccessPerspectives on School-Based IssuesArticle1 Oct 2002Owning a Hearing Loss: Arming Students With Information and Support Jane B. Seaton Jane B. Seaton Seaton ConsultantsAthens, GA Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.1044/sbi3.3.43 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In References Anderson, K., & Smaldino, J. (2000). Children’s home inventory of listening difficulties (CHILD). Tampa, FL: Educational Audiology Association. Google Scholar Anderson, K., & Smaldino, J. (1996). Listening inventory for education (L.I.F.E.): An efficacy tool. Tampa, FL: Educational Audiology Association. Google Scholar Cappelli, J., Daniels, T., Durleux-Smith, A., McGrath, P., & Neuss, D. (1995). Social development of children with hearing impairments who are integrated into general education classrooms.Volta Review, 97, 197–208. Google Scholar Davis, J. (Ed.). (2001). Our forgotten children: Hard-of-hearing pupils in the schools (3rd ed.). Bethesda, MD: Shhh Publications. Google Scholar Educational Audiology Association (1994). Minimum competencies for educational audiologists. Tampa, FL: Educational Audiology Association.. Google Scholar Elfenbein, J. (1992). Coping with communication breakdown: A program of strategy development for children who have hearing losses.American Journal of Audiology, 1, 25–29. LinkGoogle Scholar English, K. (1997). Self-advocacy for students who are deaf and hard-of-hear-ing. Washington, DC: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. Google Scholar English, K. (2001, April). Peer relationships: Teachers and children’s perceptions. American Academy of Audiology Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. Google Scholar English, K. (2002). Counseling children with hearing impairment and their families. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Google Scholar English, K., Mendel, L., Rojeski, T., & Hornak, J. (1999). Counseling in audiology, or learning to listen: Pre- and post-measures from an audiology counseling course.American Journal of Audiology, 8, 34–39. LinkGoogle Scholar Greenblatt, H., & Daar, L. (1994). A support program: Audiologic counseling.Language, Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools, 25, 112–114. Google Scholar Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Amendments of 1997. (P.L. 105–17). (. (P.L. 105–17). (1997). 20 U.S.C. §§ 1400 et seq. (Congressional Record 1997). Google Scholar Johnson, C., Von Almen, P. & Seaton, J. (1997). Educational audiology handbook. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Google Scholar Kentish, R., Crocker, S., & McKenna, L. (1999). Children’s experience of tinnitus.In J. Hazell (Ed.), Proceedings of the sixth international innitus seminar (pp. 220–223). London, England: Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Centre. Google Scholar Lambert, D., & Goforth, D.Middle school hard-of-hearing survey.Educational Audiology Review, 18, 13–19 Google Scholar Lipscomb, M., Von Almen, P., & Blair, J. (1992). Students as active participants in hearing aid maintenance.Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 23, 208–213. LinkGoogle Scholar Loeb, R. & Saragiani, P. (1986). The impact of hearing impairment on self-perceptions of children.Volta Review, 88, 89–100. Google Scholar Marttila, J., & Mills, M. (1993). Knowledge is power. Bettendorf, IA: Mississippi Bend Area Educational Agency. Google Scholar Morlock, G. (1995). Calling all teachers.. .and calling all students!.Volta Voices, 2, 26–27. Google Scholar Stone, P. (1988). Blueprint for developing conversational competence: A planning instructional model with detailed scenarios. Washington, DC: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing. Google Scholar Tye-Murray, N. (Ed.) (1994). Let’s converse: A how-to guide to develop and expand conversational skills of children and teenagers who are hearing impaired. Washington, DC: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing. Google Scholar Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 3Issue 3October 2002Pages: 43-46 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in issue: Oct 1, 2002 Metrics Topicsasha-topicsleader-topicsasha-article-typesasha-sigsCopyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2002 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF DownloadLoading ...

Nowhere to grow: homeless and runaway adolescents and their families

Nowhere to Grow: Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families. Les B. Whitbeck & Dan R. Hoyt. New York: Aldine De Gruyter. 1999. 216 pp. ISBN 0-202-30584-8. $41.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. In their book, Nowhere to Grow: Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families, Les Whitbeck and Dan Hoyt help the reader understand the complexities of society's forgotten children. Drawing on their study of more than 600 runaway and homeless adolescents, the authors utilize extensive quantitative and rich qualitative data to tell the stories of these youth. What emerges is a detailed explanation of the by which these adolescents move from their family of origin to institutional settings and gangs or city streets. As Whitbeck and Hoyt observe, Homelessness for young people doesn't happen all at once. Rather, there is a of marginalization created by forced early maturation (p. 66). It is this attention to process that is the book's strength. Divided into four parts (Society's Forgotten Children, The Family Lives of Runaway and Homeless Adolescents, Taking Chances: Adolescents on Their Own, and Nowhere to Grow: The Developmental Consequences of Running Away), the book uses a life-course developmental lens to frame and capture the developmental trajectories of these particular runaway and homeless youth. This lens views the of development as a self-perpetuated series of events. When applied to the youth interviewed for this study, the chain of events leading to early independence originates within the families from which they leave. Multiple life transitions, such as frequent changes in caretakers and residences, prompt children to become independent change agents who attempt to gain more control over their lives by leaving home. The resulting life on the streets is one of survival as these teens turn to conventional (e.g., borrowing money) and deviant (e.g., dealing drugs) subsistence strategies and social networks of similarly troubled teens. Without the benefit of positive adult influence, supervision, and resources, these youth suffer critical developmental consequences from problems such as depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse. Unlike previous studies, the use of a life course developmental approach to their work enables Whitbeck and Hoyt to peel back the layers of this social problem and give serious consideration to the developmental consequences of running away and homelessness. For example, although many of these youth suffer particular emotional or psychological problems attributable to experiences in their family of origin, it is their hard-luck life on the streets, over time, that exacerbates existing disorders or creates new ones. According to Whitbeck and Hoyt, an accurate assessment of runaway and homeless adolescents' mental health must include a distinction between those stressors associated with the youth's family of origin and those stemming from a vulnerable life on the streets. The result of this particular conceptualization is detailed information presented in the book about the many varied predictors of runaway and homeless youths' behavior. The authors argue that knowing the differences between the sources of mental health issues and their developmental progression ultimately will lead to better intervention and treatment strategies. In addition to their unique conceptualization of mental health, this study has several exceptional design characteristics that distinguish it from other studies of similar populations. …

Siblings of Children With Autism: Forgotten Children

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1996, Vol 41(8), 800–800. The reviewer states that the author's purpose in writing Siblings of Children With Autism: A Guide for Families is to help prevent future problems by focusing on issues that arise in childhood and during