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Around the world, millions of children grow up without a family in orphanages and residential care. Billions of dollars of charity funds from private US donors every year goes to support those programs. While there is extensive evidence that orphanage placement is dangerous for children, there is now a controversy at the United Nations as to whether small group home placement is an appropriate or necessary form of transition from orphanages to community inclusion. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) now recognizes that children have a right to live and grow up with a family, but older UN standards under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) still allow for institutional or residential care placement. This webinar will examine the legal and policy issues under discussion, as well as findings from research about the dangers of group care for children.