by Suranya Aiyar This article originally appeared in the Sunday Guardian on July 28, 2018 under the title ‘Risks of …
Category: USA
Part 1: Indian Laws for Children of Illegal Immigrants and Imprisoned Mothers
by Suranya Aiyar This article originally appeared in the Sunday Guardian on July 21, 2018 under the title ‘Separating Children …
Modern Child Rights: A Study in the Folly and Arrogance of the Welfare State
Lecture at Jindal Global University by Suranya Aiyar Goodafternoon. I would like to begin by thanking Professor Sudarshan in absentia. …
The Desolation Wrought by the Unicef Model of Child Rights
by Suranya Aiyar This article was first published in the Sunday Guardian on September 29, 2018 under the title ‘Why …
The Surreal Nightmare of Western Child Protection
by Suranya Aiyar This article was first published in the Sunday Guardian on September 22, 2018 under the title ‘The …
The US System of Child Protection Incentivizes Family Separation, Disinsentivizes Reunification
by Connie Reguli This article was originally published in the Sunday Guardian on October 13, 2018 under the title ‘Breaking …
It’s not just migrant children – how child removals in the US system go wrong by Suranya Aiyar
All that is wrong with the way children are removed from their parents by US state agencies acting for their supposed “protection”.
The US immigrant scandal shows children urgently need protection from the State by Suranya Aiyar
The scandal over immigrant children in the USA is part of much deeper problem of over-broad and poorly regulated powers of seizure and custody of children given to state agencies in Western countries. The US government has responded to the migrant children situation by piggy-backing on a system already in place of easy child confiscation by state agencies that is wide open to abuse.
Indian mothers stand up to US bullying in the name of “child welfare” by Niharika Dass
Will the Govenrment stand by them or cave to the USA?
Recommended Reading: Article in Washington Post on How US Child Protection Laws and Policies Victimise Low Income Families
“Children at risk of physical and sexual abuse require swift intervention. Yet more reporting may actually contribute to making children less safe. A flood of reports from laypeople, which are less likely to be accurate (and are often focused on social issues tied to poverty, rather than actual abuse), thins out already underfunded resources, while turning the attention of caseworkers away from children who need immediate intervention.”