A nonprofit law firm representing a group of New York City foster youth has resumed long-running litigation against the city’s Administratio...

New York City Council has signalled its intention to relax marijuana laws by pushing through a raft of new legislation focused around cannab...

A unanimous four-judge panel of the New York Appellate Division in Brooklyn revived a gay dad’s petition to adopt his son, reversing a “clea...

A recently filed lawsuit claims a New York couple gave birth to other peoples' children, after a fertility clinic impregnated them with ...

Family court judges in New York currently can’t allow any kind of contact between a parent and their child after parental rights have been t...

A new law, passed last week by the New York State Assembly will allow adult adoptees to unseal their original birth certificate. More >...

The number of kids in a scandal-plagued foster care center has ballooned by over 200 percent as the city’s jail population has decreased, of...

A new law in Albany, New York, requiring all school children, public and private, to be vaccinated by July in order to continue their educat...

A Utica teen was charged with falsely reporting an incident to county Child Protective Services. During the overnight hours between May 24...

When parents are accused of child neglect or abuse in New York, they face an investigation by child protective workers, a potential case in ...

Angeline Montauban had no idea what was going on the day in 2013 that workers from the city Administration for Children’s Services knocked o...

In the absence of rules created following the passage of a 2012 law, city officials relied for years on internal rules for how to handle the...

A New York mother said that she was separated from her newborn child because she failed a drug test. But the failure was due to eating a p...

Less than a week after baby Carter Dominguez was brought into the world, baby and mom are enjoying time at their Tonawanda, New York, home. ...

State law in New York prevents family court judges from allowing any kind of contact between a parent and their child after parental rights ...

The decision is careful to not criticize the Family Court or ACS, which for years has sought the arrest warrants when children it's resp...

I have two folders on my desk. One has articles with titles like “Pot-smoking Mamas” and “Pot for Parents,” espousing the use of marijuana b...

The city’s embattled child-welfare agency routinely hands over neglected and abused kids to foster parents without proof that background che...

An Erie County judge allowed two foster parents to retain custody of a 4-year-old girl they've raised since birth, despite the wishes of...

As New York considers legalizing marijuana, attention is also turning to how the drug plays a role in the city’s child welfare system—one th...