Hoping to give another abandoned child a home,Sarah Salmon visits an orphanage in Cambodia.
In our cover story this week,journalist Tracy Grimshaw talks about her 40 years in television,and leaving A Current Affair after 17 years at the helm.
From February,the fostering allowance will be extended to age 21,following concern teenagers were being left without support when they aged out of care.
NSW will be the last jurisdiction in Australia where automatic state support for children in care ends at 18,despite Sydney having the highest cost of living.
A foster carer who spoke on condition of anonymity said children without their own caseworker were “floating in the system with no one looking after their interests”.
Commercial surrogacy was a booming industry for Ukraine. Then Russia invaded.
For four decades,couples in China were told to have only a single child. They’re now being encouraged to have three – but not everyone’s listening.
For 1200 young people leaving the NSW foster care system every year,moving out of home is more about survival than celebration.
“Dad’s not your biological father.” I couldn’t compute what my mum said. There was a long pause.
Two British universities studied hundreds of NSW adoptees over 26 years,and found keeping links to birth parents was difficult but life-changing.
Jo Fraser was a 17-year-old single mother who had her son taken from her after his birth in Melbourne in 1971. She says the Andrews government’s redress scheme for mothers who had their babies forcibly removed will go some way to healing the traumas of the past.