Wet-nursing as a new strategy for orphan care in Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Saudi Arabia hosts more than 150 charitable institutions dedicated to vulnerable groups, such as orphan care associations that provide orphaned children with food, clothing, housing, and other care until they reach adulthood. The Al-Wedad Society for Orphan Care (ASOC) in Saudi Arabi operates a wet nursing program in which Saudi mothers breastfeed orphans in their care under specific conditions and circumstances. The program is intended to not only help the orphans survive and receive the psychological and nutritional benefits of breastfeeding but also establish kinship between the child and the members of the family providing the wet nursing and so support children's emotional wellbeing and belonging.

Methods

The ASOC wet nursing program was explored using two me

SUBMITTER: Albrithen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12039250 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature