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Guatemalan Girl Stuck in Gut-Wrenching Adoption Scandal
by Jorge Rivas on August 12 2011, 12:08PM
A Guatemalan court has ordered a 7-year-old returned from her adoptive U.S. parents after determining she was snatched by local kidnappers five years ago. If U.S. intervenes, it’ll be a first for international adoption.
Topics: Global Affairs
Immigrant Families Face Child Welfare and Deportation
by Michelle Chen on September 8 2010, 9:30AM
Harsher enforcement is tearing families apart.
Topics: Immigration, On Gender, Schools & Youth
New York Moves to Keep Incarcerated Parents Connected to Kids
by Michelle Chen on June 17 2010, 10:27AM
The prison system and the child welfare system both have the power to split families apart, and too often, they are tragically linked when the state imposes its judgment that a parent is no longer worthy of her child. For…
Topics: Criminal Justice, Schools & Youth
Children of the Earthquake: Rescuing Haiti’s Orphans?
by Michelle Chen on January 26 2010, 8:15PM
The Haitian diaspora has always been fractured by definition, with tough kinship ties stretched across oceans in a network of interwoven communities. Now that the earthquake has shaken up borders and geopolitical barriers, no one is quite sure how…
Topics: Global Affairs
by Sandra White Hawk on July 1 2006, 6:49PM
Raised by a white missionary, one Indian woman remembers abuse, poverty and the road back home.
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