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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.

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Katelyn Hemmeke - Korea Exposé

This article, from Korea Exposé, shines light on the many difficulties and obstacles that South Korean adoptees face in trying to identify and locate their birth families. 

Ani Chitemyan - Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso

Child Protection organizations in Armenia have recently joined forces to launch a campaign to end violence against children, called "Share Love, Not Violence." 

Cristina Flores, KUTV

This article from KUTV draws connections between what is called the "opioid crisis" in the state of Utah, and all over the United States, and the growing incidence of child abuse in the state.

BBC News

In this video from the BBC two women from the US, tell their stories of being married as children. 

Rachel Coburn - BBC News

This video from the BBC tells the story of Tommy, an 81 year-old man who grew up in the Quarriers care home in Renfrewshire, Scotland and suffered incredible abuse at the hands of his carers for over a decade. 

BBC

This video from the BBC highlights a new approach to family court in the UK and shares the story of John, a man whose children were removed from his care and who went through this court system to get them back.

Jon Manel - BBC Radio 4

This 17-part podcast series from BBC Radio 4 tells the story of the adoption process of two children in the UK, sharing the views of the birth parents, grandparents, social workers, foster carers, potential adopters, and others.

Better Care Network

This infographic summarizes the information and recommendations provided in Better Care Network's discussion paper Violence Against Children and Care in Africa

Jessica Davis - CNN

"I've always hoped to make a difference in this world. To bring goodness, peace or healing to a world that often seems inundated with loss, hardship and a vast array of obstacles that make life difficult for so many. When it came to the decision to adopt, it seemed like a no-brainer."

Fairstart Foundation

There is a growing need in the foster care field for high-quality and low-cost foster parent education to improve the living conditions of children placed in foster care. To meet this global challenge, Fairstart Foundation will launch a new international online foster care instructor education in January 2018.