Caring for Orphaned Children in China

This is the first book to apply rights-based alternative-care theory and practice for orphans to China's child-welfare system, including its history and development in urban and rural areas. It analyses empirical research starting 2001 about the profile of orphans
state child-welfare institutions
de-institutionalization
kinship care in rural China
foster-mother villages
non-government children's welfare
and current policy changes toward a mixed welfare approach.