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.
An article from Japan News emphasizing the importance of promoting and expanding Japan’s foster parent system for the purpose of providing warm, reassuring environments in which children who cannot live with their parents due to abuse or other reasons can live.
In this opinion piece from the Huffington Post, Jacquiline Huerrera discusses how it is risky to make broad statements against orphanages.
This article in the Guardian reports that French children’s services are struggling to cope with a dramatic surge in unaccompanied refugee children who have abandoned plans to travel to the UK and now want to remain in France.
The Atlantic reviews the challenges children face in the rural Kentucky.
This story from WHOtv.com features Ruth and Buckel, a couple from Story City, Iowa who adopted 19 teenagers over the course of their relationship.
This article from the BBC states that foster care workers vote to form first foster care workers union.
On the margins of the UN General Assembly, on 20 September 2016, the United States President Obama hosted the Leaders' Summit on Refugees, alongside co-hosts Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, Jordan, Mexico and Sweden.
This is an article from The Advertiser stating that same sex couples will be given the right to adopt a child in South Australia if a Bill amending the state's adoption law is passed.
This article from the Atlantic provides historical context behind President Obama's current push for refugee support.
This is a press release from United Nations stating that world leaders joined to adopt New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.