Americas

This page contains documents and other resources related to children's care in the Americas. Browse resources by region, country, or category.

Displaying 471 - 480 of 881

List of Organisations

Sita Bridgemohan - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday,

According to this article from Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, the Children Authority in Tobago plans to regularize foster care and promote kinship care in the country.

Chantal Da Silva - Newsweek,

According to this article from Newsweek, children as young as one year old who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico have been ordered to appear in immigration court alone.

Sarah Kinosian in Corral de Mulas - The Guardian,

This article from the Guardian describes the lasting impacts of family separation on one young girl from El Salvador, who immigrated to the US with her father and was then separated from him, even after reunification with her father.

Harvard Kennedy School,

In this interview, Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an adjunct lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the impact of recent events on children and families.

Lisa Desjardins, Joshua Barajas, Daniel Bush - PBS NewsHour,

PBS NewsHour read through all 99 declarations included in a motion filed as part of a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing that its practice of separating families violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fifth Amendment, and pulled out 12 for this article that offer a window into the family separations at the border.

Kathryn Joyce - The Intercept,

This article from the Intercept explains recent concerns regarding the placement of 81 migrant children in the US into the care of an adoption agency, and the linkages between this and other occurrences of family separation in the United States, including the long history of removal of Native American children from their families. 

Kathryn Joyce - The Intercept,

This article from the Intercept offers a brief history of intercountry adoption in the US as a response to crises, such as the earthquake in Haiti, and connects that to the fear of a new "adoption rush" in response to the current family separation crisis at the US border with Mexico.

BBC News,

In this video from the BBC, a woman separated from her son after they arrived at the US border in May describes her and other women's "horrible" ordeal in a migrant detention centre in Texas.

Nora McCarthy - Slate,

In this article for Slate, Nora McCarthy - director of Rise, a New York City organization that trains parents to write and speak about their experiences with the child welfare system and become advocates for reform - connects the family separation crisis happening at the US border with Mexico to the separations that occur within the US child welfare system.

Lindsey Tanner, AP - ABC News,

This article from ABC News in the US explores the harmful impacts of family separation on children's development and wellbeing.