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"Children in Maryland's foster care system are languishing in psychiatric hospitals even when they no longer require hospital care," says this segment of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. "The state doesn't have enough space to place them elsewhere." The segment features an interview with a teenager in care in the U.S. state of Maryland who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. "A judge ruled in late October that it was not medically necessary for her to stay in the hospital. But the local department of social services responsible for her care doesn't have another…
This article from CBC News tells the story of Therese Ukaliannuk, whose daughter, Marieyvonne Alaka, was sent to a residential school at the age of four and who died there at the age of eight. "For close to half a century, Marieyvonne's family did not know where she died or where she was buried. Now, Ukaliannuk, 76, is preparing to visit her little girl's grave for the first time."
From the 80s until the early 2000s, thousands of Guatemalan children were robbed and sold for thousands of dollars, separated from their mothers in the hospitals where they were born or taken from their homes. Today, those children have grown up and had the opportunity to look for their biological parents and their abductors. This documentary from Noticias Telemundo shares the stories of these families and the "business" of adoption in Guatemala during that time.
An American couple adopted their baby by posting an advertisement on Craigslist.
The Canadian government has reached a major settlement with indigenous victims forcibly removed from their homes and placed in state care as children.
Canada will pay up to C$750m ($598m) in compensation to thousands of aboriginals who were forcibly removed as children from their families decades ago, promising to end “a terrible legacy”.
A study conducted in two residential care facilities in Jamaica found that one in every three youth in care tested positive for at least one sexually transmitted infection (STI), but laws restrict reproductive health education and enabling access to contraception for young people.
Claudio Yanez tells his story about growing up without a family in Chile's public care system.
In a recent debate, Jamaica's Education Minister Senator Ruel Reid addressed the number of children living in alternative care in the country: in September 2016, 57 percent of children in care lived in various family-based care settings, while the remaining 43 percent (1,998 children) lived in residential care.
This news report describes how the foreign financing of orphanages in Haiti fuels the growth of a corrupt orphanage industry and enables unregistered institutions in the country to continue operating outside the law.