Abused for much of their young lives, it's not surprising that many former foster children struggle as young adults. Now the state aud...

The longer Davion Bugarin talked, his tears turning into gasping sobs, the more lawmakers began to cry. Someone found a box of tissues so th...

Nelly Medina was 9 when her mother, who was addicted to drugs, left her and her two siblings and did not come home. By the time Medina tur...

Kendra Owens doesn’t remember a lot about the five months she spent in foster care before her 18th birthday. Her therapist says that it’s he...

Too many young adults who “aged out” of the New Jersey’s foster care system in the first half of 2018 had not yet enrolled in school, landed...

A young Victorian woman placed in foster care as an infant has been denied access to a government document she believes may contain the name...

Iconic music legend and humanitarian Steven Tyler, through his philanthropic initiative Janie's Fund, announced a year-end donation ...

Nelson Mandela once said that a society’s soul should be judged by the way it treats its children. In the United States, the soul of our soc...

For most youths experiencing homelessness, it’s the systems that are – on their surface – intended to protect them that can play a major rol...

A first-of-its-kind report on the transition from foster care to adulthood shows Ohio teens and young adults lagging the nation in employmen...

New research by the non-partisan Annie E. Casey foundation shows Ohio youths in foster care have a difficult time transitioning into adultho...

A study out this week looks at challenges faced by foster children in Arizona and across the country, when they turn 18 and "age out...

A study released Tuesday sheds light on the struggles Indiana's foster children face as they get older. The numbers reveal the impact mo...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released Fostering Youth Transitions, a data brief highlighting the most comprehensive data set ever...

Today, there are around 38,000 care leavers in England under the age of 22, and sadly they often have much poorer outcomes than other people...

For years foster children in Louisiana had to fend for themselves after they turned 18. The state essentially dumped them out of the system ...

More than 40 B.C. youth who have experienced living in government care descended on the legislature Wednesday, calling for changes to the ch...

Rashaad Piper was 8 years old when the state of Louisiana placed him in foster care following reports of abuse at his home. He remembers fee...

The girl Eric Gilmore saw waiting at the bus stop one day more than 10 years ago had just turned 18. She had one bag of clothes, a bus t...

Travis Bailey, a star student at Armwood High School, was thriving in his home life when Hillsborough County's foster care system sent h...