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.
A report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies found that stay-at-home fathers still spend slightly less time on childcare than their working wives.
A researcher studying Romanian children who were institutionalized as infants describes the impact of social deprivation on the developing brain and their similarities to children with autism. This article suggests understanding the autism features appearing in children who were socially deprived as invants may offer insight into autism more generally and hint at interventions to ease them.
Claims of child sexual abuse and exploitation by foreign volunteers pressure Cambodia to crack down on orphanages.
An op-ed from Sean Callahan of Catholic Relief Services, Georgette Mulheir of Lumos Foundation, and Philip Goldman of Maestral International describe their partnership to prevent children from entering orphanages and transition to systems supporting vulnerable children in family-based care around the world.
This article from Business Standard highlights a revent statement from the Supreme Court of India encouraging state governments and union territory administrations to consider the use of altnerative care options, such as adoption and foster care, over placement into child care homes and
The Supreme Court of India has "directed the Centre, state governments and union territories to complete the registration of all child care institutions by the year-end," according to this article from the Hindustan Times.
This article from the Guardian describes the situation of the many children around the world who go "uncounted" or who "fall off the radar," due to institutionalization or separation from families.
The United States is the only member of the United Nations that has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and child poverty in the U.S. remains one of the highest amongst developed nations.
In this article, the researcher Charles Nelon describes the impacts of psychosocial deprivation, common among children living in institutions, on children's development and its relationship to autism.
Newstalk reports Tusla’s Dublin South Central foster care service failed to meet all HIQA standards.