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.
Children orphaned by Boko Haram Islamists are overcrowding the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria, whose population has doubled to over two million due to those seeking shelter from the conflict.
Alaa al-Din Obeid, an orphanage located in Azaz, near Aleppo and the Turkish border, serves seven hundred Syrian boys and girls.
Lending a helping hand in countries with poor health infrastructure is usually well intentioned—but it can cause serious harm.
A report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies found that stay-at-home fathers still spend slightly less time on childcare than their working wives.
A researcher studying Romanian children who were institutionalized as infants describes the impact of social deprivation on the developing brain and their similarities to children with autism. This article suggests understanding the autism features appearing in children who were socially deprived as invants may offer insight into autism more generally and hint at interventions to ease them.
Claims of child sexual abuse and exploitation by foreign volunteers pressure Cambodia to crack down on orphanages.
An op-ed from Sean Callahan of Catholic Relief Services, Georgette Mulheir of Lumos Foundation, and Philip Goldman of Maestral International describe their partnership to prevent children from entering orphanages and transition to systems supporting vulnerable children in family-based care around the world.
This article from Business Standard highlights a revent statement from the Supreme Court of India encouraging state governments and union territory administrations to consider the use of altnerative care options, such as adoption and foster care, over placement into child care homes and
The Supreme Court of India has "directed the Centre, state governments and union territories to complete the registration of all child care institutions by the year-end," according to this article from the Hindustan Times.
This article from the Guardian describes the situation of the many children around the world who go "uncounted" or who "fall off the radar," due to institutionalization or separation from families.