You are here: Homepage Tag parents Articles Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023 A class at the Coqualeetza Residential School in British Columbia in 1932 Photo: United Church of Canada Archives Discrimination | Canada “Kill the ‘Indian’ in the kid” For decades, indigenous children in Canada were sent to Christian boarding schools for re-education, where many experienced abuse. Journalist Michel Jean has written about this trauma Interview with Michel Jean 11/05/2023 Happy times: Valeria and her father Valeriu Pocitari on holiday on the Greek island of Kefalonia, 2019 Photo: private Family | Republic Moldavia “We laugh together, we cry together” Valeriu Pocitari and Valeria Pocitari live over a thousand kilometres apart yet they chat almost daily. A father / daughter conversation between Moldova and Greece. Interview with Valeria Pocitari, Valeriu Pocitari 10/20/2023 [Translate to English:] The author Kit de Waal. Photo: Sarah Lee / eyevine Family | Great Britain “My mother had about 12 jobs” Between religious fanaticism and sibling love: British author Kit de Waal describes her childhood of extremes – and talks about how it shaped her relationship with her adopted children By Kit de Waal 10/06/2023
Xiang Peng, seven years old, is in first class. His parents work in Guangzhou, a journey of 24 hours and 16 minutes by train from their hometown of Wanzhou. In the last six years, they have seen each other six times, each time for five to seven days during Chinese New Year. Photo: Tami Xiang Family | China “Millions of children live apart from their parents” Chinese migrant workers are often denied official residency. Many parents leave their children behind in the villages. Photographer Tami Xiang visited some of them. A conversation Interview with Tami Xiang 11/25/2023
A class at the Coqualeetza Residential School in British Columbia in 1932 Photo: United Church of Canada Archives Discrimination | Canada “Kill the ‘Indian’ in the kid” For decades, indigenous children in Canada were sent to Christian boarding schools for re-education, where many experienced abuse. Journalist Michel Jean has written about this trauma Interview with Michel Jean 11/05/2023
Happy times: Valeria and her father Valeriu Pocitari on holiday on the Greek island of Kefalonia, 2019 Photo: private Family | Republic Moldavia “We laugh together, we cry together” Valeriu Pocitari and Valeria Pocitari live over a thousand kilometres apart yet they chat almost daily. A father / daughter conversation between Moldova and Greece. Interview with Valeria Pocitari, Valeriu Pocitari 10/20/2023
[Translate to English:] The author Kit de Waal. Photo: Sarah Lee / eyevine Family | Great Britain “My mother had about 12 jobs” Between religious fanaticism and sibling love: British author Kit de Waal describes her childhood of extremes – and talks about how it shaped her relationship with her adopted children By Kit de Waal 10/06/2023