Academic Publications
To Ratify or Not to Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Gains and Losses
Who do they think they are: Making sense of self in residential care, foster care, and adoption
To Ratify or Not to Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Gains and Losses
in Faith in Law, Law in Faith (Eds. Rafael Domingo, Gary S. Hauk, and Timothy P. Jackson)
20 March 2024
FREE Open Access Chapter by Mariela Neagu and Robin Fretwell Wilson.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely ratified human rights instrument in the world. Indeed, since its adoption in 1989, it has been ratified by every country in the world—with the sole exception of the United States....
Conceptualising Care in Children’s Social Services
Who do they think they are: Making sense of self in residential care, foster care, and adoption
To Ratify or Not to Ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Gains and Losses
The British Journal of Social Work
bcab060, April 2021
FREE This article explores the concept of care and the responsibility assumed by ‘states’ when taking children into care. It examines the limitations of the state in exercising its parental duty and it proposes a model for re-conceptualising children’s social care by drawing on the literature on autonomy, recognition theory and specific provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Who do they think they are: Making sense of self in residential care, foster care, and adoption
Who do they think they are: Making sense of self in residential care, foster care, and adoption
Who do they think they are: Making sense of self in residential care, foster care, and adoption
Children and Youth Services Review
Volume 105, October 2019, 104449
This article explores how the type of placement in children's social care influences identity formation and contact with the birth family. It draws on 40 life history interviews with Romanian-born, care experienced young people who entered adulthood from different types of placement: 16 from residential care, eight from foster care, seven from domestic adoption and nine from intercountry adoption.
Love And The State: Why Children’s Rights Matter for Children In Care
Children by Request: Romania’s Children Between Rights and International Politics
Who do they think they are: Making sense of self in residential care, foster care, and adoption
Chapter in ‘Family Matters: a Festschrift for John Eekelaar', Intersentia 2022
This chapter draws on children's rights and ethics of care ethics to argue how 'the state' can act in a loving manner when decisions are for children in care. It is a tribute to John Eekelaar's huge contribution to the children's rights thinking.
Children by Request: Romania’s Children Between Rights and International Politics
Children by Request: Romania’s Children Between Rights and International Politics
Children by Request: Romania’s Children Between Rights and International Politics
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
Volume 29, Issue 2, August 2015
This article analyses intercountry adoption within the international human rights law framework. It uses Romania as a case study, one of the main countries of origin throughout the 1990s, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and one of the first countries to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, none of which had an effect on reducing corrupt practices in intercountry adoption.