Anatomy of the long‐waiting period of prospective adopters on the state corridor of child adoption: A necessity or a denial?

Onayemi, Olayinka Modupe

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“…African cultural values for women's fertility and childbearing create a market for children where Aspects of child vulnerabilities and threats to nurturing care, using Bronfenbrenner ecology theory. infertile individuals may clandestinely manage their infertility pressures, sometimes illegally, in a matter that poses a threat to children's safety and security through different shady practices that disrupt the opportunity to observe due process (46)(47)(48). This threat within the system of adoption has been connected to the observed gap between the high demand for children and the low number of adoptable children within the system, creating an opportunity for shady practices that threaten adoptable children's security and safety (13).…”

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Socio-ecological drivers of vulnerabilities of children living within orphan homes and the implications for their nurturance care

Onayemi,

Hapunda

2023

Front. Public Health

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At the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is the vision to “leave no one behind, and to see that all children survive, thrive and transform. However, some categories of children may remain left behind owing to their disproportionate exposure to the risk of threats and deficit of attention to the social and ecological climate that characterizes the various systems in which they are found. This study is concerned with one major question: Despite diverse local and international instruments that favor full nurturance and development of children, what social forces play as threat to full nurturance care in the context of children living in Orphan homes? Nurturing care framework and Brofenbrener’s ecological system theory were adopted as the analytical frameworks. Research design was exploratory. Data were collected through sessions of in-depth-interview with orphanage managers, caregivers, and social workers on the socio-ecology drivers of threat to children living within the orphan home space and its implications for nurturance care across the various complex systems of the child’s environment. The study found various factors across the complex systems of child development – microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, microsysm and lastly, chronosystem- which undermine caregivers’ delivery and increases children’s vulnerability and risk of missing out on effective nurturance care. These vulnerabilities are endemic realities of social, and bio-ecologcal space in which child development occurs. This study recommends specialized interventions and policy directives relevant for each identified threat. It also calls for a stronger political will in improving the conditions of this category of the children while within the orphan home space and ultimately, actions towards deinstitutionalization of children.

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