A lawsuit is claiming the New York Police Department forced a woman to give birth while shackled in handcuffs. In a lawsuit filed Thursday...

IT'S a heart-wrenching scene: a young boy being reunited with his birth mother in an airport after she gave him up for adoption ten year...

Kansas jails are facing a rising likelihood of births behind bars amid a nationwide increase in women's incarceration. The Hutchinson ...

(Austin, TX)—In the U.S., there are more than 428,000 children in the foster care system on any given day, and more than 30,000 of those chi...

Here are the headlines for today.  Check back soon! This post could be updated at any time throughout the day. One of the foster bro...

Girls in foster care are more likely to be diagnosed with mental health conditions, be prescribed multiple medications and become pregnant a...

The Associated Press reports a Michigan appeals court threw out a conviction against mother Melissa Lee Jones on Thursday, ruling that the s...

Pregnancy. It should be the most exciting time of a woman's life. You're gearing up to meet that tiny person who's been growin...

Texas Will Begin Tracking Pregnant Foster Youth The teenage pregnancy rate in the United States, including Texas, continues to fall, accor...

Missouri looks at criminalizing using drugs while pregnant A Missouri lawmaker is proposing that the state make it a crime for a woman to ...

How some Alabama hospitals quietly drug test new mothers — without their consent In Alabama, a positive drug test can have dire repercussi...

False Positive Drug Tests and CPS When an expectant mother arrives at a hospital, ready to deliver her baby into the waiting arms of medic...

UK may approve three-parent pregnancies to end several genetic diseases Later this year, legislators in the UK will vote on (and almost ce...

Pregnant woman has unborn baby girl forcibly removed by caesarean after social workers obtain court order because she had suffered a mental ...

Shackled and pregnant: Wis. case challenges 'fetal protection' law When Alicia Beltran was 12 weeks pregnant, she took herself to ...

Women Sell Positive Pregnancy Tests on Craigslis t Pregnant women across the country have taken to Craigslist to sell positive pregnancy t...

Pregnancy Cost Child Welfare Supervisor Her Job: Lawsuit A woman was fired from her job ensuring the welfare of children because she was g...

Report finds female inmates were sterilized in California prisons without state approval Doctors sterilized nearly 150 female inmates in t...

War of the Womb The Jim Crow fueled Drug War has produced at least one pernicious effect that does not get enough attention in many of ou...

Science Tells Us How To Have A Healthy Pregnancy; Should The Law Punish Women Who Don’t? Everyone agrees that a pregnant woman shouldn’t ...