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.
A foster care group home in Kansas, USA housing 10 teenage girls in care, Carla's Youth Residential Center, has been closed due to suspected physical and sexual abuse and the facility, according to this article from U.S. News & World Report.
This article from Daiji World shines light on the number of unregistered children's homes in India and the importance of registering these institutions to curb the vulnerability to child trafficking.
This article from the Washington Post tells the story of a family, and others like them, who migrated from El Salvador to the United States and were separated upon crossing into the US.
Act 4 of this episode of 'This American Life' describes the way that US immigration policy has separated families by parental deportation, with a particular focus on parents originally from Latin America.
This article from the Epoch Times describes the continued risk of child trafficking in intercountry adoption procedures, and the recent trends of some countries to ban foreign adoptions.
According to this article, the Latvian government is seeking to raise the minimum age at which children living in institutions in the country can be sent abroad to stay with a "host family" in the US.
In this opinion piece from Youth Today, Bill Baccaglini - president and CEO of The New York Foundling, one of the oldest and largest organizations in New York serving at-risk youth and their families - writes about the need for child welfare practitioners to "think more expansively" about their missions.
According to this article from the Guardian, the US government has separated 429 asylum-seeking families in the past two years.
The government of Nigeria is being called on to pass a bill to help put an end to the use of "baby factories" in the country, according to this article from the News Agency of Nigeria.
Indigenous children in the Australian capital of Canberra are highly overrepresented in the child protection system, according to this article from the Canberra Times.