Juvenile homes and other care insitutions discussed at plenary session of the State Conference on Juvenile Justice and Capacity Building in Bhopal, India, calling for the development of mechanisms in foster care and sponsorship due to the lacking capacity for institutions to care for children. 

Thousands of children arrive at Kokata's Sealdah Station alone each year; unknown hundreds of those children are abducted and trafficked into slavery or the sex trade. 

This article from the HuffPost blog discusses the negative impact orphanages have on children's physical, mental and emotional development. 

This paper is based on the findings from a qualitative study with orphaned children in South Africa, their teachers and caregivers, which investigated the capacity of extended families affected by poverty and HIV/AIDS to care for and support orphaned children. 

In this podcast episode of The Wire, Kate van Doore discusses the unintended, but harmful, impact of volunteering in orphanages. 

In this video, Philip Goldman, President of Maestral International, discusses how donors, faith communities, advocates and other committed actors can be brought together under the common belief that all children belong in families. 

Kate van Doore describes how volunteering in orphanages is connected with child exploitation and why the establishment of a Modern Slavery Act is important. 

This article describes the extreme psychological distress experienced by unaccompanied migrant children and the heightened adverse effects for those being detained and the reasons States are using immigrant detention despite its negative consequences. 

This study investigated and compared electroencephalogram (EEG) functioning between a group of institutionalized adolescents and a never institutionalized group of adolescents during a social decision making task. 

Police of Schenetady, New York have seen a rise in calls in recent years from Northeast Parent & Child Society, a residential care home for youth referred from the court system, with 406 calls through July 14 of this year.