Child welfare
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.
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 […]
Nebraska reevaluates safe-haven law that legalized child abandonment
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.