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.
This article from New Vision tells the story of Ruth Kahawa, a pastor in the Tororo district of Uganda who set up an orphanage in 1996 and now works to reintegrate children into families of origin or foster care.
This article from the Intercept explains recent concerns regarding the placement of 81 migrant children in the US into the care of an adoption agency, and the linkages between this and other occurrences of family separation in the United States, including the long history of removal of Native American children from their families.
"Weak adoption laws could have also exposed hundreds of Kenyan children to abuse and exploitation both locally and internationally," says this article from Daily Nation.
This article from the Intercept offers a brief history of intercountry adoption in the US as a response to crises, such as the earthquake in Haiti, and connects that to the fear of a new "adoption rush" in response to the current family separation crisis at the US border with Mexico.
In this video from the BBC, a woman separated from her son after they arrived at the US border in May describes her and other women's "horrible" ordeal in a migrant detention centre in Texas.
In this article for Slate, Nora McCarthy - director of Rise, a New York City organization that trains parents to write and speak about their experiences with the child welfare system and become advocates for reform - connects the family separation crisis happening at the US border with Mexico to the separations that occur within the US child welfare system.
This article from ABC News in the US explores the harmful impacts of family separation on children's development and wellbeing.
The US city of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services and Office of Homeless Services have partnered to develop a new program aimed at giving priority affordable housing for people whose children are in the custody of child welfare, according to this article from WHYY.
A federal judge in California has ordered that all families who have been separated at the US border with Mexico as part of the Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance Policy" be reunited within 30 days, according to this article from NPR.
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.