Abstract
Some 10 million children are at present estimated to live in residential institutions (University of Stockholm, Sweden, 2003). The four main groups are: (a) healthy infants abandoned by the parents; (b) children with disabilities; (c) children removed from malfunctioning families voluntarily or by legal authorities, or because the child shows behaviour that cannot be controlled by the parents; and (d) children in penal institutions. Such cases are illustrated below.
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© 2008 Einar A. Helander
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Helander, E.A. (2008). Children in Residential Institutions. In: Children and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584303_4
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