农村留守儿童权利的法律保护

农村留守儿童是我国经济发展局部不均衡产生的新的弱势群体。目前,留守儿童的受教育权、受监护权、生命健康权正遭受着侵害。应从立法层面、司法层面、普法层面上对农村留守儿童权利予以实时保护,使其健康快乐成长。     

幼儿园“小学化”的困境与幼儿园课程改革的研究

近年来,幼儿教育得到了长远的发展,但是幼儿园小学化现象却呈现出了愈演愈烈的趋势,这对幼儿知识、情感以及能力的培养,以及对全面发展的高素质人才的需求都将产生不利的影响。应试教育的弊端、幼儿教育课程内容不合理以及国家政策、财政的缺失等是造成这一现象的重要原因。随着相关法律法规的颁布执行,家长、幼儿园和社会的教育观念的更新,使三者形成合力,可以更好的解决当前幼儿教育面临的困境。     

Building on the Greenbook: A Perpetrator Pattern‐Based Approach to Improve Child Welfare’s Response to Domestic Violence

The Greenbook Initiative has acted as a catalyst for change across the United States and globe. In this article, the authors discuss how the Greenbook has shaped the environment related to perpetrator accountability in child welfare, how a paradigm shift in work with fathers can advance domestic violence‐informed practice, and how a perpetrator pattern‐based approach, as exemplified by the Safe & Together Model, can help advance the vision of the Greenbook.     

从香港"无证儿童案"看基本法的解释权

1999年1月29日,香港终审法院对港人在内地所生子女在港的居留权案(又称“无证儿童案”)作出判决。引起很大的争议,争执的焦点是基本法的解释权问题。本文通过对基本法的解释权问题的阐述,指出其存在的一些立法不足。     

农村留守儿童心理健康的学校干预机制研究

大量的基层调查表明,农村中因父母外出打工而留守在家的“留守儿童”与同龄儿童相比存在着较为明显的行为、情绪、人格等方面的心理健康问题,并且依然有恶化的趋势。这些问题虽然尚不足以导致具有临床意义的心理障碍,但已影响到这些孩子健康成长。对此,一些学者和各地有关机构也提出并开始采取一系列措施进行心理干预,但从系统性、有效性和可操作性上看还缺乏说服力。基于对学校功能的认识和运用,应进一步探讨如何利用和拓展学校已有的教育功能（教育目标设置、教学管理、学生管理、师资建设和少团组织）,来干预留守儿童的心理健康问题。     

Differences in suggestibility between 5–6 and 10–11 year olds: The relationship with self confidence

Abstract

Differences in suggestibility and recall between 5–6 and 10–11 year olds were investigated. It was hypothesized that younger children would be more suggestible than older children and that differences in self confidence between older and younger children would influence these differences. It was also predicted that older children would recall more information than younger children, and that this age difference would be less strongly influenced by self confidence. Forty-one 5 and 6 and fifty-six 10 and 11 year olds were interviewed about a video they had witnessed. Several factual and misleading questions were asked, and the percentage of correct answers to the factual questions (to measure recall) and the percentage of incorrect answer to the misleading questions (to measure suggestibility) were calculated. The level of self confidence of the children was measured with six items of the Behavioural Academic Self Esteem Scale (BASE), reflecting self confidence. The outcomes supported the hypotheses: Younger children were more suggestible than older children and this difference disappeared when controlled for self confidence. Older children gave mere information about the event than younger children, and these age differences were, to much less extent, influenced by their self confidence.     

It's a Family Affair

Abstract

In the United States, incarceration rates are increasing at an alarming rate. In particular, the incarceration of women is increasing. Oklahoma has the highest rate of female incarceration in the nation, and drug offenders comprise a significant proportion of these female inmates. Placing large numbers of women in prison may have serious implications not only for the women but also for their families, particularly their children. We surveyed 144 incarcerated female drug offenders in Oklahoma, 96 of whom reported dependent children living with them prior to incarceration. The data included the women's perceptions of the effect of their incarceration on their families as well as an examination of the potential for serious problems due to placement of the children. The study indicates that many children are placed with families that have a history of abuse, which suggests that failure to consider the implications of incarcerating large numbers of women likely contributes to serious abuse risks for their children.     

Modifying children's court care plans to acknowledge poverty and disadvantage

This think piece suggests that Children's Court Care Plans should include a new section that documents poverty and social disadvantage, especially of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, when they are under investigation for child abuse and neglect. New South Wales in Australia is used as the exemplar state, but this suggestion may find an echo elsewhere.

Points for practitioners

• As a general proposition social and economic circumstances should be considered in addition to parental dysfunction in child protection proceedings in Children's court.
• Care Plans prepared for hearings in the NSW Children's Court, often developed in response to serious harm report investigations, currently do not contain information about parents' poverty and social disadvantage and hence decontextualise family living circumstances.
• Consistent with international evidence, Care Plans should require information about parents' socioeconomic situation, including social disadvantage of residential neighbourhood, status and cost of household tenancy, and household income.
• Taking account of social and economic circumstances has the potential to generate savings in out-of-home care that can be re-allocated to support services to reduce poverty and social disadvantage and thereby reduce the need for removal of children from parental care.