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.
"During the pandemic, video chats replaced in-person visits between parents and their children placed in foster care" says this article from the Marshall Project. "The effects could linger for years."
This article reports on how "Aboriginal children are still being removed from their families and culture at disproportionately high rates."
According to this article from the Hindu, "a police team [in Bengaluru, India] uncovered an inter-State child trafficking racket. Two women, who are allegedly part of the racket, were arrested on Monday."
This radio segment from NPR explores the policy of separating migrant families at the U.S. border.
A 52 year-old man has been arrested on the charge of sexually abusing four minor boys at an orphanage, of which he is the warden, in the Indian city of Mangalaru, according to this article from the Hindu.
In this radio segment, NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Julia Lurie, senior reporter at Mother Jones, about how the pandemic has impacted the U.S. foster care system and kept children separated from their parents for longer.
According to this article from BBC News, campaign groups in the UK have called attention to the lack of available face-to-face contact for children with parents who are incarcerated, which they say is "crucial in maintaining the relationship between imprisoned parents and children."
According to this article, a local group in Washington state in the U.S. is "advocating for a state bill, passed by the House in early March, that would tighten the criteria for taking a child from a home at the first stages of a case before a full fact-finding hearing before a judge."
According to this article from the Guardian, "thousands of children of EU citizens who have been taken into care may become 'undocumented' adults with no right to work, rent a home or receive benefits, a charity has warned."
According to this article from Forbes, two U.S. senators have reintroduced a family leave law called the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY Act).