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 photograph of a young boy in China with frozen hair has captured the attention of the public and has "sparked renewed discussion online about child poverty," according to this article from the BBC.
"Ethiopia has banned the adoption of children by foreigners amid concerns they face abuse and neglect abroad," says this article from BBC News.
In this video, Reporter Kyle Edwards explains how the government has helped to contribute to the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in Canada's foster care system.
This piece for the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund tells the story of Charles Louis, a young man who aged out of foster care in the US and the difficulties he experienced in childhood and in foster care as well as in transitioning out of care.
In this piece for Modern Ghana, Jeffery Amo-Asare calls on people to stop donating to orphanages in Ghana and start supporting foster care and other family-based care options for children.
"India has suspended an American adoption agency for what the government says was 'negligent' behavior in the assessment of adoptive parents," according to this article and accompanying video from WFAA.
In this opinion piece from Independent Australia, Gerry Georgatos refers to Australia's recent branding as the "child removal capital of the world" and the negative impacts of child removal and family separation on children and families.
In this piece for Youth Today, Richard Wexler - executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform - calls out child protection policies in the US for too often unnecessarily removing children from poor families due to parental mental illness and what the child protection agencies deem as inability to raise children "independently."
Samburu County, Kenya will not be renewing the registrations of several children's institutions in the county and the County Children Co-ordinator Jane Kabiro is calling on the Samburu government to develop a child protection unit.
The Supreme Court of India has issued notices to all states and Union Territories in light of recent concerns regarding child trafficking in orphanages, according to this article from the New Indian Express.