Amy Goodman
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Mental Health Experts, Rights Groups Call for Unceasing Media Coverage of Separated Migrant Children
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11:51Now PlayingIt’s been more than four months since a judge ordered the Trump administration to reunite all families that were separated at the U.S.Mexico border, but 140 children are still separated from their parents in U.S. custody. It is believed that 30 children will never be reunited. Despite this, family separation is no longer in the daily headlines. We speak with a Harvard psychologist who is trying to change this by calling on U.S. media outlets to highlight the growing number of days that migrant children have been forcibly separated from their parents. Dr. Paula J. Caplan is a clinical and research psychologist and associate at the DuBois Institute at Harvard University. She is leading a coalition of human rights groups and mental health professionals calling attention to the ongoing family separation crisis. They have launched this petition
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