This year’s Data Book presents current data and multiyear trends measuring child wellbeing in the US along four domains: (1) Economic Well-Being, (2) Education, (3) Health and (4) Family and Community.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, in response to the current situation of family separation at the U.S. border with Mexico, has issued a series of recommendations (endorsed by Better Care Network and others) calling for urgent action to rapidly reunify separated children with their families and end detention, in accordance with their best interests.

In this brief radio segment from NPR's Morning Edition, Noel King talks to Sherry Lachman, ex-adviser to U.S. Vice President Biden and founder of Foster America, about the challenges ahead as hundreds of migrant children are separated from their families and sent to foster care throughout the United States.

This meta‐analytic review examines the presence and quality of close peer relationships for adoptees and individuals with foster care experience.

This study used Group Concept Mapping (GCM) with a sample of 31 foster youth and alumni to explicate a conceptual framework for effective legal representation.

This brief highlights variation among states in child welfare agency spending from federal funding sources.

This article from Rewire.News connects the US policy of family separation at the US border with Mexico to its history of separating indigenous families, including the use of "Indian boarding schools" as a means of separating Native children from their families, communities, and culture, as well as the current overrepresentation of Native children in foster care in the US.

This video clip from an NBC News segment in the US discusses what is next for "the over 2,000 children still held by the Department of Health and Human Services," detained at the US border with Mexico.

This joint publication from Child Trends and the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families calls attention to the critical need to support immigrant families in the US who have been negatively affected by the trauma of separation, and who will likely continue to experience considerable adversity in the future, even if reunited with their loved ones.

In a recent statement, Destination Unknown, a network of over 100 organisations worldwide, coordinated by Terre des Hommes, has expressed its concern regarding the family separations currently imposed at the US border with Mexico "and the traumatic and detrimental effect it is having on children."