Voices from the Silent Cradles: Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children

Front Cover -- Voices From The Silentn Cradles: Life Histories Of Romania's Looked- After Children -- Copyright Information -- Dedication -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Structure Of The Book -- 2 Romania: What Underlay The Orphan Crisis -- Children's Institutionalisation Policy Before 1989 -- The Orphanage Crisis And The Response From The West -- Romania's Accession Into The European Union -- A Game Changer -- 3 Where Do Children Go When They Can't Stay With Their Families? -- Introduction -- What Do We Know About Residential Care? What Do We Know About Foster Care? -- Is Adoption The Gold Standard In Child Protection? -- The Controversy Of Intercountry Adoption -- Are Some Types Of Placement Better Than Others? -- So, What Are We Missing? -- 4 Childhoods In Care -- Introduction -- The Young People In The Study -- Recruitment From Residential Care -- Recruitment Of Research Participants With Foster Care Experience -- Recruitment For Research Of Domestic Adoption -- Recruitment For Research Into Intercountry Adoption -- Visualising Care Trajectories -- Uncrc And The Protection Of Children In Care Young People's Experiences In Residential Care -- Young People's Experiences In Small Group Homes -- Young People's Experiences In Foster Care -- Growing Up As An Adoptee In Romania -- 'the Rescued Orphans': Growing Up In Intercountry Adoption -- Experiences Across The Different Types Of Care -- 5 Teen Years In Care And Their Ways Out -- Introduction -- Adolescence And Embarking Into Adulthood From Residential Care -- Adolescence And Embarking Into Adulthood From Foster Care -- Adolescence And Embarking Into Adulthood As An Adoptee In Romania -- A Few Final Remarks 6 Exploring Life Trajectories: What Mattered To Them -- Introduction -- Exploring Outcomes And Features Of Residential Care -- Exploring Outcomes And Features Of Foster Care -- Exploring Outcomes And Features Of Adoption -- What Mattered In The End? -- Reflecting On 'becoming' After Care -- 7 The Benefit Of Hindsight: Learning For Policy And Practice -- Implications For Further Research And Practice -- Can We Get 'care' Right And If So, How? -- Moving Away From Where Children In Care Live To How They Live -- The Deinstitutionalisation Policy: A Red Herring? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References Index -- Back Cover Mariela Neagu. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 211-228) And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.