Child welfare

A group of Aboringinal women are shown sitting during a Sunday picnic in Telegraph Station in Alice Springs.

As more Aboriginal children are removed from families, critics say government risks a second Stolen Generation

The number of Aboriginal children removed from their families in Australia and placed in out-of-home care has doubled in the last 10 years. In the Northern Territory it is three times as high as a decade ago.

a man looks at an algorithm on a computer screen

Can an algorithm keep kids safe?

Health
Border fence at Friendship Park, Tijuana

Without lawyers, 90% of children crossing into the US alone seeking safety could be sent back

Justice
Girls stand in a dorm at the shelter for underage immigrants and repatriated minors in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Why so many undocumented kids continue to cross the border from Mexico into the US without their parents

Global Politics

Podcast: Chinese Orphans Catch a Break

The World in Words

Adopted Chinese Children Learn About Their Roots on ‘Heritage Tour’

Official statistics show that since 1999 over 64,000 Chinese babies, most of them girls, have been adopted by Americans. China’s one child policy has caused an increase in the number of children abandoned, many of whom end up in orphanages. But China has changed a great deal in the last two decades, and so has […]

The World

Russia gets tough on US adoptions

Conflict & Justice

American and Russian negotiators are meeting for the second day today in Moscow to discuss adoption. The Russians are drawing up a draft treaty which they want the U.S. to sign before Moscow will allow American families to adopt any more orphans.

The World

Aid group steps in to find families of Haitian ‘orphans’

Lifestyle & Belief

A group of American Baptists accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children, who the group members said were orphans, has raised complicated questions. One thing is certain: not all of the 33 children were orphans.

The World

Nebraska reevaluates safe-haven law that legalized child abandonment

Global Politics

When Nebraska crafted its safe-haven law to protect newborns from abandonment, state lawmakers had the best intentions. But without an age limit set, those best intentions have opened the door to some 30 teenagers being abandoned at Nebraskan hospitals.

The World

Aceh’s orphans

Environment

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the tsunami that roared across the Indian ocean. Donations have generously helped survivors there — including in Aceh — but the neediest children in Aceh these days are NOT tsunami survivors. The World reports.