Better Care Network highlights recent news pieces related to the issue of children's care around the world. These pieces include newspaper articles, interviews, audio or video clips, campaign launches, and more.
The contract for a temporary housing facility for immigrant children in Tornillo, Texas in the US was set to terminate August 13, "but now the government is planning to continue using it to shelter children for yet another month, according to a spokesperson for the Health and Human Services Admin
This episode of BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine program features an interview with Rukhiya Budden, who grew up in an orphanage in Kenya.
This article introduces a series from the Guardian that explores the experiences of fathers on paternity leave or caring full-time for their children.
This article from the Guardian shares some of the stories of long-term trauma caused by the U.S. family separation policy.
This article from BBC News tells the stories of "cuckoo families" in El Salvador, women and families who are chosen and coerced by gang members to care for certain children.
A recent lawsuit alleges that children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico, who are under the supervision of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), were routinely given anti-anxiety and antidepressant drugs, sometimes by force, according to this article from the Guardian.
This piece from the Daily Nation finds "strong evidence" of orphanage trafficking in Kenya.
The government of Haiti has set out "to improve the deplorable status of the country’s children," through a partnership between the state child welfare agency and several international child-service organizations, by beginning to build a foster care system in the country, according to this article from the Washington Post.
"While there's little doubt, a traveler who signs up to help at an orphanage is intending to help the community and children, in reality, they could be helping an industry which takes advantage of the vulnerable," says this article from World Nomads.
Although the US has ended its policy of family separation for families crossing the US border with Mexico, experts state that it may take years to reunify the families that have already been separated at the border due to different obstacles, according to this article from the Guardian.