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.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "a tax-payer funded Catholic foster agency in Philadelphia was free to turn away same-sex couples as foster parents on religious grounds."
The recent discovery of the unmarked graves of 215 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada has prompted the question: "Are there similar burial sites at U.S. Indian boarding schools?," says this article from Indian Country Today.
According to this article from CNN, there are "at least 577 Indian children who lost both parents to Covid between April 1 and May 25, when India was battling its second wave of the outbreak, according to government figures."
The plight of so-called "COVID orphans," children who've lost one or both parents to COVID-19, "is one of the heartbreaking pandemic developments to emerge from India, which in May recorded the greatest number of deaths in one country in one month from COVID 19: over 120,000," says this article from NPR.
In this video, "CNN's Vedika Sud speaks to the eldest sister-- now the primary caretaker of a family of seven siblings who lost their mother and then their father to the brutal second wave."
"The discovery of an unmarked grave holding the remains of more than 200 Indigenous children, including one possibly as young as age 3, has shaken Canada," says this article from the Christian Science Monitor.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the judicial practice in cases of international adoption," says this article from the Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI).
This article from Express Informer describes the intergenerational impacts of the trauma experienced by Indigenous children in Canada's residential schools.
Article from TIME reports fewer Americans are adopting internationally.
"Indigenous Canadians are mourning the loss of 215 children whose remains were found in a mass grave at a former residential school in British Columbia," says this article from KUOW.