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.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the world was shocked to learn that countless children were being held in unsanitary and hazardous conditions within Romanian orphanages. This video tells of Izidor Ruckel’s experience while growing up in a Romanian orphanage, along with his eventual immigration to the U.S. where he was adopted by a family from California.
This article from The Age examines a crucial issue in the Australian child welfare system - “how to reconcile the protection of the wellbeing and development of children with the promotion of Indigenous culture and identity to avoid a repeat of the Stolen Generations.”
In this article for the Guardian, the author writes about some of the pitfalls and potential recklessness of Western intervention in social problems in the Global South.
This article from Reuters examines the response of Norway and other Scandinavian countries to the arrival of asylum-seeking girls under the age of 16 who are married, and how these girls are cared for and protected in the asylum systems.
According to recent estimates from Statistics Canada, nearly half of the children in foster care in Canada are aboriginal, and in Saskatchewan, the percentage of aboriginal children in the child welfare system is a staggering 85 percent, says this article from Global News.
Over 200 people were killed, and over 100 women and children abducted, in a cross-border attack in the southern Gambella region of Ethiopia on Friday, according to the BBC article.
This article describes how Rwanda successfully reintegrated the children living in orphanages into family care.
The recent removal of five children from their parents’ home in Norway has called into question child protective services in the country.
Singapore’s Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) will be launching a new pilot project by December which aims to enhance parenting skills and overall functioning in vulnerable families, according to the article.
This video tells the story of a boy in China who lives in the countryside with his grandmother while his parents are working in a factory in another city.