An investigation into an “orphanage of terror” in the north of Romania was launched this week by Romanian prosecutors, according to this article from South China Morning Post.

In this brief radio segment from NPR's Morning Edition, Noel King talks to Sherry Lachman, ex-adviser to U.S. Vice President Biden and founder of Foster America, about the challenges ahead as hundreds of migrant children are separated from their families and sent to foster care throughout the United States.

This article from Rewire.News connects the US policy of family separation at the US border with Mexico to its history of separating indigenous families, including the use of "Indian boarding schools" as a means of separating Native children from their families, communities, and culture, as well as the current overrepresentation of Native children in foster care in the US.

This video clip from an NBC News segment in the US discusses what is next for "the over 2,000 children still held by the Department of Health and Human Services," detained at the US border with Mexico.

In a recent statement, Destination Unknown, a network of over 100 organisations worldwide, coordinated by Terre des Hommes, has expressed its concern regarding the family separations currently imposed at the US border with Mexico "and the traumatic and detrimental effect it is having on children."

This article from NBC News shares perspectives of several child development researchers and other experts, including Nathan Fox (a child development specialist at the University of Maryland and one of the primary researchers in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project), regarding the impacts of family separation on children.

The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) calls on the Trump Administration to acknowledge that ending the policy of systematically separating children from families at the border is not over until every child is reunited with their parents and found safe and unharmed.

This article from Quartz takes a historical view of orphanages in the United States, reporting that orphanages often separated children of color at disproportionately high rates as compared to white children and that most of the children housed in orphanages during the time of their use in the US had at least one living parent.

According to this opinion piece from the Guardian - written by Matthew L Kolken, an immigration lawyer and an elected member of the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association -  the US federal government has contracted the defense industry to provide childcare to children who have been separated from their parents as they've crossed over the border into the US from Mexico.

The Elevate Children Funders Group has issued a statement calling for an end to "policies which harm children in the name of national security."