Gretchen Bachman

TL;DR: This research presents a case study of parenting in a time of COVID-19, which aims to provide a guide for parents to consider their children's needs during this crucial period of transition.

TL;DR: Orphanhood and caregiver deaths are a hidden pandemic resulting from COVID-19-associated deaths and show the need for an additional pillar of the response: prevent, detect, respond, and care for children.

TL;DR: The findings show that numbers of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and caregiver death almost doubled in 6 months compared with the amount after the first 14 months of the pandemic.

TL;DR: This article is organized into childhood developmental periods and cross-cutting issues that affect child survival and healthy early development across all these periods and presents evidence-based recommendations for programs focused on caregivers to increase child survivaland promote healthy development.

TL;DR: Fostering a stronger evidence-base to improve protection for vulnerable children requires evaluations that are integrated into program development, use context-appropriate methodologies able to assess intervention scalability and employ more longitudinal designs to explore children's trajectories.