Stepchildren of Society is a Swedish NGO for adult persons who as children were taken into custody by society and placed in orphanage

Orphanage

An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...

s and foster homes. The organisation were founded in 2004, and its full name is National Association for Stepchildren of Society (in swedish: Riksförbundet för Samhällets Styvbarn).
Stepchildren of Society has three main areas of activities:

• reciprocal support among all stepchildren of society
• redress to those who were exposed to abuse or negligence within the frames of society’s child care
• surveillance of today’s child policy concerning custody measures from the side of society.

Stepchildren of Society co-operates with the 2006 state inquiry reviewing abuse and negligence within the social authorities’ childcare.
The activities of the association are built upon democratic values and human rights as shown in Swedish constitution and international conventions for human rights, i.e. Convention on the Rights of the Child

Convention on the Rights of the Child

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children...

, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly . The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled...

, and European Convention on Human Rights

European Convention on Human Rights

The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is an international treaty to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe, the convention entered into force on 3 September 1953...

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Since 2008 a news letter is published, Styvbarnen informerar. President since 2010 is Anne Skånér.