Why we need to end the era of orphanages | Tara Winkler
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2017
- Could it be wrong to help children in need by starting an orphanage? In this eye-opening talk about the bad consequences of good intentions, Tara Winkler speaks out against the spread of orphanages in developing countries, caused in part by foreign donors, and details the harm done to children when they are separated from their families and left to grow up in institutions.
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The world is not over populated, we're just really bad at managing what we've been given.
Spirit Calling there is a video on ted which talking about overpopulation, and actually are not true.
Overpopulation isn't a set number. Overpopulation is really people vs resouces and resource disruption. Basically, the current technology is what mainly dictates overpopulation. In many ways, we are overpopulated. In others, we aren't overpopulated.
@@BakaBaka8146 Actually it is true because we are one those overpopulation around world as whole country and it is not merely a number but counting of people instead of things that we created like non living things.
@@alexandercanella4479 Yes exactly for most of the people can’t understand what overpopulation and never even believe in it till I saw people who are different from those I have been living with? I am talking about childfree people they have many different reasons to become childfree some are doing it for environment and some are not doing for environment like breaking an abusive cycle that brought damage to every each generation from past to present one decided to stop it, never give mental health problems, diseases and many hereditary problems to children better live with one self.
There so many of reasons I can’t type everything here.
@@alexandercanella4479 It depends on capacity to think what overpopulation really means than being number or digits.
I looked up how to open a orphanage and came across this video. My mind is absolutely blown in a good way. Since I was young I said I wanted to have multiple orphanages to help the children of the world who had no parents. So to hear that the majority of orphanages are just children’s residential institutions is what I needed to hear but also heartbreaking for me. You’re making me look deeper at the root cause of the problem and so now my mind is on how do we help these families stay together so they don’t have to feel like they have to give away their children?
Hello! How are you doing? Where are you from? Can we work together? I'm from in Haiti.
Same here !!!
So you take what u heard and you change that don’t let anyone discourage you
Wow... I came in with a closed mined and left mind blown.. congrats on the success!!
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I was going to be taken to an orphanage when I was five(I have parents, but the whole thing is complicated) literally a day after I was adopted into a family.
I was so close to living that life, but I’m lucky that a family came along and adopted me.
This is a great speech and I understand what's being said, but the unfortunate reality is that for most developing countries foster care is not viable. When I was growing up I was unable to be with my own family because of abuse and neglect and youth homes kept me off the streets 90% of the time. When I didn't have a roof over my head I almost died from hypothermia.
In a perfect world there would be no need for orphanages, but then again there would be no need for foster care either. Also, those "orphanages" that commit terrible crimes, as mentioned in the speech, are not orphanages. They are criminal enterprises and should be viewed as such.
This is an excellent Ted Talk! I'm an orphan who lived in an orphanage, and I agree.
JinXX X I want to learn more about your life
@@belowaverageguitarist7822 me too
One, single, committed person can really change the life of others for the best. God speed Tara, thank you
Great talk, very comprehensive and intricate.
Comprehensive and comprehend are unrelated in meaning
Ev Yeah, these are the kind of Ted talks I want to see. Something inspiring or innovative.
She went through a lot of introspection to realize how she was enabling these places. God be with these families and children.
I'm the one victim from corrupt orphanage from Indonesian. Also victim from ilegal adoption that become labor a.k.a slave for my adopt parents. And my life was devastated. I was tried to end my life one day. But now I tried to survive to spread messagge.
I am a Cambodian. I see sth very new and inspiring. It's "home better than orphanage". Children need a family not an orphanage!
Having grown up in a children's home i can say i agree with her fully!
Brilliant speech. This is so true. Grew up in an orphanage and most of the people I grew up with in the home either had one parent dead or had both parents alive but couldn’t take care of them. Some of them too along the way were taken out of the home by their extended family. Some I have never seen or heard from again since they left the home.
I came to TED looking for a speech for a project, my mind did not think I could find something this good, such a powerful message many people don't ever even think about. I love it!
You are absolutely on-point. I lived through different institutions for most of my childhood and this Tedtalk was something that I resonate with. All the best to you. Viva - family! Paul Charles
Way to go, Tara!!
Give more incentives for families in these developing countries like food, housing and jobs to help support their children. Like other euro/ american countries. The only reason the children are in orphanages is because the parents or parent felt like they couldn't support the child that they would be better cared for somewhere else. Give foodstamps, lower income housing and steady cash income. It's easy really.
Tara Winkler you are a blessing to this world!! God bless you :)
This is essentially a fundraising speech. Simplify the problem, simplify the solution, then ask for "support" (usually money). It sounds good, but many families are horrible at raising kids. And I'm wary of anglos riding to the rescue and telling another culture what's good for them.
True.
there is definitely a long way to go in helping with oppression not only against children but all vulnerable groups, as some people have commented the foster care system for example is still one of those. but this is an absolute excellent start and a very informative and well done talk Tara thank you.
This truly opened my eyes.............
See that's the thing, I find myself donating to various causes thinking that even if some money ends up in the wrong hands, some of it will reach it's destination. However I never thought that money, as silly as it sounds, would end up creating this "booming" business. What now? I don't know, because I can't stand by and watch anyone suffer. So am I to neglect them just so I won't end up helping non intended beneficiaries too? This past day I have given this a lot of thought, without a outcome that can answer your question. This bothers me even more.
Brilliant speech tara. Thank you!!!
Amazing. You're doing Australia so proud.
I'm glad to know this. You've changed my perception about orphanages.
You're an inspirational woman 🙌🏾
Tara Winkler, found the root of the problem and developed a model to fix it !
Bless you for rising this subject, I believe that there is no substitute to the family and your approach is more reasonable. I just want to mention that family planning is also a way to limit the problem. When poor families are stick to one or two children plan a much better condition will be available for the children.
What's the proposal for the children who have really no parents or relatives? Where will they be taken care? pl clarify.
She explained that rather than sending them to orphanages, they ought to be placed in foster care homes where they can find new families and a consistent family lifestyle.
isnt that an orphanage?
Foster care is kind of like an orphanage, but usually smaller. In a foster care, the idea is to create a more family like environment for the orphans. Such as giving kids chores, having parents, foster siblings. Foster care can also be corrupt and have terrible foster parents... Its obvious going to school in a smaller class will be better, because the teacher can pay attention to you more vs. a regular public school class, 34 kids. Maybe the idea is same.
Foster care and orphanages are different in many ways but share a similar problem. Foster care can be as good or better than being adopted but it can also be just as bad as the worst orphanages. It isnt regulated highly enough in America. The rate of abuse whether its mental, physical, and/or sexual is still horrific.
@@Hipp1062 Unfortunately Foster Care is not always a feasible option in developing countries. It's barely an option in the United States. Even if there are no "Orphanages" in the United States I lived in a variety of youth homes because I didn't have family to stay with. If it wasn't for those homes, I would have lived on the streets more often than I was. I almost died of hypothermia because I didn't have a home.
Is there a charity that works against corruption?
We as humans have lot of errors in managing stuff and this is how people can transform the world and take us to the betterment of human existence
Thank you for this speech.
We as human race must ensure family values than atomic living
Very humbling
Wooow, this tedtalk deserves more views. totally changed my mind.
I had to leave a tear...
I could click the like button to infinity, nothing can explain the agony of growing without love and without a sense of belonging. We honestly do not need to keep children in institutions so as to help them.
When we know, we can care in a better way👍🏽
The family-based model is better for western countries for sure. But the countries which are under poverty, the numbers are too big that impossible to get this many foster homes. I have been donating to orphanages for many years. there are plenty of them doing wonderful job. If we have a headache, we don't cut down the head. But Surely You have raised some very important points here. Regards
Love and respect to you, Miss ❤
We as humans have so lot of errors in managing stuff and this is how people can transform the world and take us to the betterment of human existence
I couldn't help but notice that she mentions the name of the children's trust. She gave a powerful and thought provoking presentation, but in the end, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a sales presentation for the new children's trust model that she created. The foster care system is far from perfect.
This is so forward thinking and amazing !!
Ted is really a powerful platform to convey such a powerful messages to people all over the globe of all kind
Thank you
I am remembering being in college an going to Stella Maris Orphanage. It was too much to take in at the time. I had joined the United States Navy Reserves as a junior in High School and went to Boot Camp that summer. I noticed the barracks like atmosphere of the orphanage but didn’t make the connection. My childhood was with unloving parents and it was not until I became a parent that I experienced the love of parent and child. Only a few days ago we learned about mass graves at a residential school in Canada. The very religion that condemns birth control is responsible for the suffering and death of children. We humans.
Miracle Foundation has the same platform, thanks for caring and everyone else who supports the little ones.
shes right but this is just the situation we're in if you're able to provide them a home, food, education and safety it's a good start. It is far better than what they had.
Thank you.
such a beautiful talk ! even I am amazed I was cycling the corruption
Wonderful talk!
very logic ... and a great idea
Really praiseworthy...
bravo miss - great talk
Plot twists. I came here with an assumption about people denying social responsibility to help another, but now I get it. I understand that the typical things spreading in developing countries sometimes are not the best solution, due to regulations or the culture. Though I, myself, found another message about donating at the end of video, I couldn't agree more with the concept of family based living.
I would caution people not to form opinions on the basis of what you hear from this woman. There is a study where people were asked about their experiences growing up in an orphanage in the US. It was common that people characterized the experience as a positive one. They came out of a chaotic background that had badly wounded them. The orphanage was an island of stability. I know of a women who spoke of growing up in a series of foster homes. There is no permanence. The people that take in children are often just doing it as a sideline to make a few extra dollars when short. Every time the child moves on to a new home is taken as a new rejection because there is something unlovable about them.
Marilyn Monroe was abandoned as a child. She saw a series of foster homes growing up and she was deeply wounded by the experience. Her desperation to be loved is why she created the false persona we know.
That woman is an Anglo do-gooder who does not realize that a lot of the kids in orphanages are a lot better off than children who live in the streets. Winomaster is right !
And celebrities, although they truly mean well, propelled the problem.
God, this is so eye opening
Great work, Tara!
Fantastic work
Orphanages can give kids the hope of family reunification, once adopted they can only dream that. Excuses, people are failing kids in Orphanages like in all care scenarios, do a better job. So much research has gone into child raising that we can do better. I lived in the UK, i want less adoption here and fostering should be banned. Paying so much to foster carers which should be spent on quality children homes. 3rd world problems are huge, need to start at the top.
This is eye opening.
Excellent.
really impressive talk!
But here's the thing foster care doesn't work either especially the United States it doesn't most people in foster care have a criminal background or the foster care itself it's bad I understand officers are bad too and I wish there was a better way
It's true that many child protection systems in the developed world are very broken. When we are working in developing countries with emerging child protection systems, we are making sure that we don't replicate these same broken systems. It's always best to try and source foster families from within the child's existing network - a family who the child already has an existing relationship with - and then ensure the foster parents have the necessary child protection training, parenting skills training and lots of ongoing follow up support from social workers and a network of foster parents. It is, of course, imperative that foster parents pass a criminal background check too.
Foster Care should always be an absolute last resort, after exhausting all other possible solutions, including kinship care options.
To sum it up, institutional care of children is harmful no matter how high the standard of care. But when foster care is done well, studies have proven it has good outcomes for children in need of alternative care and even help children to recover from the damage done from institutionalization - www.bucharestearlyinterventionproject.org
If the millions of dollars currently being sent over to orphanages were redirected to funding family-based care initiatives, we could ensure we had sufficient high-quality foster care available to children in need of alternative care.
There’s still orphanages in the US, right? I think there’s one in Pittsburgh
Excellent!
That's why I personally think there should be a license for parenting. It may be hefty with the paperwork load, but it's more trust-able.
please come to Nepal with this.
Only if governments and people work together to make this world a better place, we would, the key word is we would, has been living in a paradise
That is what you should never give money provide things ....also well said family is needed more than things.the child who has both parents their brain cells work more .
No matter how good institutions are, families are better. Support poor families, not just children.
THANK YOU
great..
So the families that have the children need more support to take care of these children. Like the U.S. model of lower income families to have food, housing and job support.
How can I join you to help?
This strategy needs to be adopted in South Africa.
God bless you
Sadly this may not be an option for children orphaned by war.
We have to cooperate to limit the control of bad people by
Instead of giving to the orphans give support to possible adoptive families and what not.
Family based care could be the best but there is also a role of orphanages where parents are abusive and incapable of looking after their children even with external care support ???
The US DOES have a problem with adoption, as well as with "orphanages" simply because they changed the damn name to group homes. If you enacted a law FORBIDDING adoption outside of the country unless you've already adopted someone in the states, then you simply should not adopt! The people over there have it worse than we do, and the way this nice lady told us about it all from their perspectives, then as a human being shouldn't we follow suit?
"Family based care is ALWAYS better than placing a child in an institution." Not true - it depends on the institution they're going to and the "family" they came from... Some institutions are actually relatively well-run and a net positive for the children, and some "families" are just as abusive as certain dysfunctional institutions that are cited periodically in the press, etc.
say!! if any one ignorant Education, live without light.
so amazing.
orphanages and Educator system huge impact In your Life to assist kids.
world of Educators, is Human services. so education is best thing. always in aspirations for life. is always Give some did not forget in your life, in your mind, so very nice with teams teachers or managers in connections parents , or program
focused on children Guides system , so good luck to you. and God Bless your more.
I want to help the orphanage how can I start
The problem with her perspective is that she has found only the problems with one area of what happens when families are failures in some way. I wish she had looked more into the problems with government and NGO control of children's lives. Why didn't she answer the big question as to why those parents allowed their children to be taken from them? Why didn't she look more closely into the body of knowledge available on these issues before heavily weighting her recommendation in that direction? Orphanages ARE bad and are not the answer, but there are other models that do work in those same areas, such as opening day schools where children in poor families can get a decent education, food, clothing, health care. These supports can help their families that do exist. Governments and NGOs can be just as corrupt, by the way, and they would be running those programs she's talking about.
Happybidr in response to your first question, she did. Poor families send their children to these orphanages because they think the child has a better chance at a good life
what a smart woman 👏
Great talk and of course we need to move long term towards replacing orphanages with foster care and other systems. Yes of course orphanage voluntourism has serious problems. But that doesn't mean we should turn our backs on orphanages. Orphanage voluntourism doesn't really exist in the Dominican Republic, though orphanages do. BeachCorp plans to start operations in June 2019 and sales in June 2018 and won't do orphanage related projects at the beginning. Still one day we do hope to help kids in orphanages with scholarships: from young kids 5-6 all the way through college.
Here's our take on this issue. www.beachcorps.com/blog/orphanage-voluntourism
Yes, but this system can be applied in maintaining a one child policy. The problem is greed which results in extreme levels of inequality compromising everyone's existence.
Wow she has a point.
can anyone here tell me where their local orphanage is?
So true sometimes it even happens modern democratic countries.. Just in a different way...
S/o to her to that's a big thing she's accomplished
Giọng hát của ah Đức phúc hát đúng tâm trạng hay quá
*To be fair, the idea of getting rid of orphanages was discovered like a hundred years ago or something.* This lady was not just educated to know anything about the issue, so she has spent years in vain until she has rediscovered the basic idea that is taught in social studies schools from the get go.
I started becoming aware of poor families just dumping their kids on whoever will care for them after watching "Tashi and the Monk." Such a sad reality...
a great speech
No It's another Western do-gooder !
Wow!
And here i had a dream of opening an orphanage one day.
Aaliyah Sanchez A school would be a better idea 👍
Maria Beltran Hey that was my idea.
As do I, and I'm not giving up on that dream. If she talks about corruption, yes, wherever money goes corruption will tend to follow. If you plan to start an orphanage one day, it's your choice to make your orphanage to be the best that you can. Free it from prejudice and corruption, providing children with the emotional and family support.
The poverty is caused by the control (socialist or communist) economies in these countries. The answer is free market economies, clearly defined property laws, and less intrusive governments. Read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell (available on Amazon in either book, or audio book).
So all we have to do is end poverty worldwide so families can take care of their own children? Great. Let's do that.
It is considerably more cost effective to support a child in family-based care. If the millions of dollars currently being donated to orphanages around the world were redirected those children, and many other vulnerable and at-risk children, could be cared for in family-based care.
Wherever there is movement of money there will be corruption. If we donate millions to orphanages, we get corrupt orphanages. If we donate millions to family-based services, we get corrupt family-based services.
The example that Tara gave was of a woman who was able not only to support her family but to fund their university education. If you do that on a worldwide scale for all at-risk children to the point where we no longer need child care institutions, then you have cured poverty. If that example is relevant, she is talking about solving poverty worldwide forever. Millions of dollars is not going to do that. No charity is going to it. It would take hundreds of billions per year, which is hundreds of billions more reasons for the corrupt to intercept it.
You can only get there by developing the economy of the country so they can provide services paid for by taxes.
great
ELIZAAA...
The term orphanage is not limited to children with deceased parents. As defined in the Cambridge dictionary, An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans-children whose biological parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to take care of them. Children who live in the streets or street children are usually brought to a non government organization ( NGO) where they are provided with their basic needs such as residential care, food, clothing, medical care and hospitalization ( when needed ), recreation, spiritual and character/ values formation, community service, and education One foundation in our country, i.e. Philippines has a foundation that provides total care to 300 poor, orphaned and /or abandoned, neglected children plus 700 community based poor children. These children are ages 9 to 17 upon point of entry. Its Vision is Children redeemed from helplessness and empowered to choose right. I would like to extend an invitation to you to come and visit this center.
That's why we should remain grateful no matter the circumstances
Ayyy Xoxo No? If you're in bad circumstances you're not obligated to be grateful. There's always going to be someone worse off than you, it's not healthy to never realize it could be better as much as it could be worse.
Ayyy Xoxo that's not the message you should be taking away from here