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 personal story about adopting a child from Guatemala.
The U.S. Embassy in Vietnam points to poor regulation as the basis for denying intercountry adoptions.
Two families in South Africa absorb children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Their story.
Josephine Morgan comes from a poor family in Liberia. Her father, hoping for a better life for his children, agreed to an offer made by the head of an orphanage to take Josephine, her sister and her young brother.
The United States expects to endorse the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, a multilateral treaty intended to protect children by standardizing international adoption procedures, later this year. Guatemalan Congress recently failed to pass a bill recongizing Guatemala's endorsment of the Hague Convention in 2003. Once the United States enforces the Hague Convention (anticipated early 2008), it will refuse permission to adopt Guatemalan children until Guatemala implements the treaty as well.
Emerging evidence from Mozambique suggests that children fostered after conflict-induced separation receive love, care and support from local families.
Dana Johnson, member of the Budpest Early Intervention Project and a speaker at the BCN-BEIP discussion day, addresses common questions concerning the adotpion of institutionalized children.
Africa shifts to 'whole village' approach for the care of orphans and other vulnerbale children.
Explores intercountry adoption from the perspective of the adoptees. Focuses on the experience of Korean adoptees in the United States.
"According to the first stage of our research, there is no significant difference between children, based on their orphan status," Quinlan said. Orphaned children are doing as well in school and engaging in the same level of risk behavior as their non-orphaned counterparts.