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 is a Proposed Rule document from the U.S. Department of State regarding international adoptions. The Department of State (the Department) proposes to amend requirements for accreditation of agencies and approval of persons who provide adoption services in intercountry adoption cases.
Victoria, Australia considers a proposal wherein professional foster carers could be paid to look after some of the state's most vulnerable and troubled children.
In this opinion article from Huffington Post, Carol Emig states that there are millions of refugee children around the world who need protection. She cites Moving Beyond Trauma: Child Migrants and Refugees in the U.S., which states that more than a 127,000 children will enter into the U.S. by the end of 2016.
This news report for NBC News states that a new UN report shows that children make up half of the world's refugee population.
The Bold Heart Campaign project of Weinspires Global Foundation held an awareness campaign at the Bwari central market in Nigeria.
Groups from across the East African country are working to build systems of "alternative care" for children living outside ther families. But do these efforts stand a chance next to the business of international adoption?
This article discusses how children's immersion in social media and video games causes them to be bored with reality. This leads them to be less cooperative, which leads to parents becoming more angry.
In this article from the Washington Post, people share stories of how they found out they were not U.S. citizens after being adopted by American parents.
Global men are being challenged to take on greater roles in the local, regional and international efforts to reduce the incidences of child abuse/child maltreatment in countries worldwide, and in the day-to-day rearing of global children.
This news report states that nearly half a million refugee and migrant children are in the hands of smugglers.