and told my officers that his dad would be deported. another one details an 11-year-old who says that he was called aside by an officer and then just didn t see his father again. so of the 850 referrals of family separation between january and june of 2018, the overwhelming majority are from the office of refugee resettlement. even house judiciary chairman jerry nadler cited these documents during a panel hearing today. he called them startling and noted the majority of the dozen children under the age of 1 were separated before the zero tolerance policy was officially enacted. more than a hundred of the referrals predate the announcement of that controversial policy. look, in some cases they do cite criminal history as a reason behind the separation. that could fall under a long-standing child welfare policy but the referrals don t explain how are if the case was resolved. an hhs official tells cnn that given orr was unaware of a zero
hold toddlers en masse? babies. toddlers, little kids. i can t even i don t even know where you would start to look to figure out what the sort of shelter, licensing, and best practices are for how you d do that. well, there are a number of regulations and they vary from state to state. some of these don t, however, apply on federal property. but i think the major point is, this is a real departure from child welfare policy that s been pretty established in our country since the 60s. we ve increasingly found, you know, both through science as well as just common sense that kids are meant to be with their parents. so our whole model is set up to have children be in foster homes, children be with extended family, children be in the community. so this really is a sharp break from that established model, to put hundreds of kids in crisis together in an institutional setting. now, how exactly this staffing
well, there are a number of regulations and they vary from state to state. some of these don t, however, apply on federal property. but i think the major point is, this is a real departure from child welfare policy that s been pretty established in our country since the 60s. we ve increasingly found, you know, both through science as well as just common sense that kids are meant to be with their parents. so our whole model is set up to have children be in foster homes, children be with extended family, children be in the community. so this really is a sharp break from that established model, to put hundreds of kids in crisis together in an institutional setting. now, how exactly this staffing ratios work out, if you have preschoolers as opposed to teens, there may be some, you know, differences from state to state there. but there are some regulations of how exactly all of those are being followed right now is a bit tough to track. last question for you. with the policy change ann
hatches operating across china. when this program was launched back in 2011, the government was happy to talk about it, believing it was addressing the problem of child welfare in this country. well, now it appears there is a gag order in place as everyone we have approached about this subject has refused saying they are not allowed. but one of the founders of china s child welfare policy strongly depends the program. we had to work out a more humane way to accept these orphans. babies were being thrown into trash cans on the side of the road and in front of hospitals because parents are too poor to care for them. that s why we built the hatches. the government claims there are 500,000 orphans. experts believe the real figure is in the millions. and while there are plans to build more foster care homes,