Nigeria: Over 90% children in care homes have undergone adverse childhood experiences — Report

Researchers have said that child labour, physical, sexual, and neglect abuse, parental separation and abandonment were all negative childhood experiences that put vulnerable children and orphans at risk for PTSD in a new study done at the juvenile Correctional Institution in the Ijokodo neighbourhood of Ibadan.

They reported that the adolescents in the home also experienced psychological issues like sleeplessness, feeling sad, and nightmares, while some of their carers described…