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 video explores the "business" of orphanage tourism in Cambodia and the ways in which Australians contribute to the problem.
In this article, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee discusses the critical brain development that happens in the first year of a baby’s life, and the impact that growing up in poverty has on that cognitive development.
A couple in the US is suing an adoption agency that they claim misled them about two children they adopted from Russia. The judge in their case has made a preemptive decision to bar the couple from using the “black market” to rehome the children if he rules not to allow the parents to vacate the adoption.
An increasing number of infants have been left at a “baby box” in Gwanak-gu, Seoul since 2009.
The Ghana NGOs Coalition on Rights of the Child (GNCRC) has recently urged the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) and others to provide parenting and counselling support services regularly to parents and children to enhance parent-child relationships.
The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is undergoing a process of linking all child-care institutions across India with one another, according to the article.
This article explores some of the reasons behind the US’s failure to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Dan Rather, a news anchor and investigative reporter from the U.S. recently produced and aired a documentary special on the phenomenon of “re-homing” internationally adopted children in the United States.
This article, from NBC News, speaks to the experiences of those who were adopted from Vietnam to the United States and the history of Vietnamese adoption in the United States.
This reportive piece from NPR covers the reunification of 18 children with their families in Liberia after being quarantined at an Ebola care center, or “shelter” in Monrovia.