CHILD WELFARE POLICY

Child Welfare Policy in Canada

Child Welfare Policy in Canada

Subjective Assessments of well-being of Children

The subjective assessment of well-being of children and adolescents is significantly higher in the Netherlands, Spain and Greece and clearly lower in Poland and the United Kingdom. Studies of intuitive assessment of own health in young people show that in almost all OECD countries where data are available, the girls claim to have poorer health than boys and this difference increases with age.

The percentage of young people (with 11.13 and 15) that "liking school a lot" varies from more than 35% in Austria and Norway to less than 15% in Finland, the Czech Republic and Italy. In Canada, there is a slight trend to lower life satisfaction among youth 11 to 15 years, particularly in the case of girls. In Canada, child protection is a set of services implemented by the governments of the provinces and territories, sometimes in collaboration with private companies known to child welfare in order to offer services that complement or replace the care and supervision of parents(Noddings, 2004).

Each province now has a well established system of protective services for children to prevent or help correct situations where children are victims of neglect, abuse or exploitation, or have trouble with the law to provide care outside the home (eg, foster care, residential care group home, institutional care and services ADOPTION) children removed from their homes, and to offer various forms of support services to families who are struggling to care for their children. The services of contemporary child protection is not limited only to the behavior of children and parents, but also deal with various social and environmental problems that threaten the well-being of all family members. Not only in Canada but elsewhere in the civilized world, the main problem associated with the social issues of child protection is poverty(Noddings, 2004).Historical Development

From the earliest historical documents, children appear as a commodity to be bought, sold or even put to death, and they are considered the property of their father. The tendency of the state to intervene in child care is a relatively recent phenomenon. At the time of the "child support" starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, various charities, religious and charitable organizations undertake to help the abandoned children, orphans and neglected children. These organizations run orphanages, training schools and asylums for the poor, seeking to ensure that the education of children of citizens will be disciplined, industrious and literate(Miller, 1999).

In Upper and Lower Canada before Confederation, children are primarily the responsibility of the family.  Provincial governments provide facilities such as prisons, remand homes and trade schools, and support orphanages run by churches and private organizations. They also establish a system of apprenticeships that a child can be given to an employer in exchange for room and board, and sometimes pay. At that time, most Canadians live on farms, and family survival relies heavily on child labor.

The problem of social children at work is however, linked to the rise of industrialism and ...