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Uganda Care Leavers/Association of Care Leavers Uganda released this statement in response to the appearance of Ugandan children on an April 15, 2023, episode of Britain's Got Talent. These care leavers who have spent part or all of their lives in residential care expressed concern about the institutionalisation of children and the need to instead promote family care for all children.
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This article by Ellen Livingood in Volume 13, Issue 9 of Postings describes the ways in which Christian churches and faith communities are moving away from orphanage volunteering to supporting other forms of care for children. "Often orphanage ministry is one of a church’s most-popular global missions efforts because there is such an emotional attachment to needy children," says Livingood. "Yet disturbing facts about the orphanage model, especially the impact of Western short-term ministries in Majority World orphanages, are causing many churches to rethink their…
High prevalence of sex tourism in Zanzibar has spurred a five year National Action Plan to end violence against children and women on the island.
Stuart, then five, and his cousin Juliet Tendo, seven, were taken to the US by a caring Baptist family who had been given a legal guardianship order in June 2009 after arriving in Uganda. The children were later adopted through a US court. They were given what were said to be legal death certificates for Juliet’s mother and Stuart’s father. It was only in summer 2011 that the Hodges learned that both were, in fact, still alive.
Article available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/06/uganda-child-adoption-market-confusion
The Lost Daughters is an online independent collaborative writing project founded in 2011, edited and authored by adult women who were adopted as children. The piece ‘Orphans and Economics,’ written by Aselefech Evans, a woman adopted from Ethiopia when she was five years old, addresses the issue of family preservation and international adoption.
Recognizing the role of money in international adoption – typical adoptions cost about $30,000-$40,000 USD and adoptive families are almost always more economically well-off than birth families who are typically living in poverty – the author of…
In this article for Prism Magazine, a publication of Evangelicals for Social Action, the authors ask challenging questions about the active role played by the Western Church "not only in funding orphanages where they may not be needed but also encouraging "orphanage tourism" disguised in the form of short-term mission trips." They review the evidence from global research that has demonstrated the adverse impacts of residential care on the development of children and their protection rights, and ask some challenging questions: "Why are orphanages unacceptable…
In this article in the magazine Mother Jones, Kathryn Joyce, the author of a recently published book on the issue titled The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption chronicles the rapidly growing evangelical movement for international adoption in the United States since early 2000, and its impact on children and their families, with a particular focus on Liberia. She follows the story of four children adopted by a Tennessee family from Liberia, a country that had just emerged from a 14-year civil war…
The prosecution rested its case last week in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the New York socialite and alleged accomplice of billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. She's facing six charges for her alleged role in Epstein's trafficking of underage girls.
Advocates for survivors of child sex trafficking say the Maxwell case…
‘Stronger and stricter’ intervention on child safeguarding is needed in light of the recent murders of two children in England by their own families, a county councillor has urged.
The four siblings are Vetrivel (9), Velayutham (8), Sundar (6), and Sakthivel (9).
According to a Times of India report, the victims’ parents, who worked in a charcoal unit, sold their two older sons for Rs 50,000.
The report further suggests that the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown significantly impacted the parents' livelihood, making it difficult for them to survive.