Pharma Company Studying Oxycontin's Effect On Children

Pharma Company Studying Oxycontin's Effect On Children

The maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin confirms that a clinical trial is currently under way to measure the opioid's effects on children.

House Bill Would Keep Kids of Deported Parents United With Families

House Bill Would Keep Kids of Deported Parents United With Families


On Thursday, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) introduced legislation to address the rising number of children in foster care as a result of immigration enforcement. The “Help Separated Families Act of 2012” intends to keep children of detained or deported parents united with their families.

State aims to put fewer Utah children in foster care, boost in-home services

State aims to put fewer Utah children in foster care, boost in-home services

Utah wants fewer children placed in foster care and is boosting efforts to provide better in-home services, state officials said this week.

Note: Sounds good in theory, but is believing.

Father attempts to take back his baby, which was placed by Child Protective Services in a Solvay home

Father attempts to take back his baby, which was placed by Child Protective Services in a Solvay home

A Syracuse man is facing several charges after Solvay police said he tried to remove his child from the home where Child Protective Services had placed the baby.

Why it can get messy when the county takes someone’s children away

Why it can get messy when the county takes someone’s children away


Edward and Kimberly Bogan where enraged when Berks County caseworkers and Spring Township police took their children from them in February.

New group lobbies Congress to change Indian Child Welfare Act

New group lobbies Congress to change Indian Child Welfare Act

A new group called the Coalition for the Protection of Indian Children and Families is lobbying Congress to amend the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Senate Committee Considers Positive Alternatives to Seclusion and Restraint of School Children

Senate Committee Considers Positive Alternatives to Seclusion and Restraint of School Children

Corey Foster, 16, was playing basketball with his friends at his school in Yonkers, N.Y., in April, when a staff member asked them to leave the court. What happened next is in dispute, with witnesses describing aggressive staff who escalated the situation and school officials who deny that. But the conflict ended with several staff members on top of Corey, who suffered cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead at a hospital later that day.

Give babies to foster parents who want to adopt them, says PM

Give babies to foster parents who want to adopt them, says PM

Babies will be placed with foster families who want to adopt them under plans to reduce the disruption to children in care.


Note: The only problem I have with this is that you will end up with these desperate to adopt infertile's falling in love with every kid that comes their way, hiring lawyers to fight against reunification and crying out for sympathy and justice if the kid is ever returned home.

CPS removes 12 principals, accuses them of abusing free or reduced lunch program for own kids

CPS removes 12 principals, accuses them of abusing free or reduced lunch program for own kids

Twelve Chicago Public Schools principals and assistant principals are accused of falsifying documents to get free or reduced lunches for their own children.

Cannibal cult arrests in Papua New Guinea

Cannibal cult arrests in Papua New Guinea


Papua New Guinea police have arrested members of an alleged cannibal cult accused of killing at least seven people, eating their brains raw and making soup from their penises, a report said Friday.

Md. police: Boy, 12, being charged with murder

Md. police: Boy, 12, being charged with murder

Police in a Washington, D.C., suburb say a 12-year-old boy is being charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a 2-year-old foster child living with his family.

DCF Worker Accused Of Having Sex With Foster Child Denied Bond

DCF Worker Accused Of Having Sex With Foster Child Denied Bond

An investigator with the Department of Children and Families accused of sexual misconduct with a foster child  made his first appearance in bond court Friday afternoon.

Man Jailed For Making False Child Abuse Reports

Man Jailed For Making False Child Abuse Reports

A Glens Falls man on parole is lodged in the Warren County Jail after authorities say that he filed false reports of child abuse against a woman.

The Failure to Protect Foster Children and Children on Medicaid

The Failure to Protect Foster Children and Children on Medicaid

Medicaid Fraud must be endorsed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid; it is the only logical explanation for the massive amount of fraud committed to pay for psychiatric drugs not covered under the Federal Medicaid program due to not being FDA approved, and not being listed in the drug Compendia recognized by Federal programs to qualify for reimbursement. Prescriptions written for drugs prescribed for “physical ailments” will not be filled by a pharmacy unless a person agrees beforehand to pay cash.

Judge upholds child support in Russian adoption

Judge upholds child support in Russian adoption

The Tennessee woman who ended her adoption of a 7-year-old Russian boy by putting him on a plane to Moscow by himself lost her bid Friday to keep from paying $150,000 in child support.

Tom Cruise to pay 10m child support

Tom Cruise to pay 10m child support


Tom Cruise will pay 'more than $10 million' in child support to Katie Holmes.

Girl shut in chicken coop and forced to wear 'shock collar' by adoptive parents

Girl shut in chicken coop and forced to wear 'shock collar' by adoptive parents


A 15-year-old girl from Georgia told social services that her parents locked her in a chicken coop and make her wear a shock collar after she refused to do her school work.

Blackpool Council social worker delays harmed children: Ofsted

Blackpool Council social worker delays harmed children: Ofsted


Vulnerable children in Blackpool suffered harm because social workers did not act quickly enough to help them, a report has found.

Exclusive: DFCS knew girl wasn't being fed months before death

Exclusive: DFCS knew girl wasn't being fed months before death

State documents obtained exclusively by CBS Atlanta News show the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) suspected a Cobb County girl was not being fed 20 months before she died of starvation. 

Usher wants to settle custody battle in wake of jet ski tragedy

Usher wants to settle custody battle in wake of jet ski tragedy

Usher wants to settle his messy custody battle with ex-wife Tameka Raymond.

Penn State probe accuses Paterno of cover-up

Penn State probe accuses Paterno of cover-up


Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials buried child sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago to avoid bad publicity, according to a scathing report Thursday that exposed a powerful "culture of reverence" for the football program and portrayed the Hall of Fame coach as more deeply involved in the scandal than previously thought.

DCYF Shuts Down Child and Family Group Home

DCYF Shuts Down Child and Family Group Home

A group home on Maple Avenue in Middletown, operated by Child and Family of Newport, has been shut down after the Department of Children, Youth, and their Families (DCYF) discovered violations last Friday.

Mother of special-ed boy who was restrained and secluded advocates for disciplinary law

Mother of special-ed boy who was restrained and secluded advocates for disciplinary law

Parents urged Congress on Thursday to limit the ability of state school systems to have special education students physically restrained while in class.

Agency contracts bring end to DOCS foster care role

Agency contracts bring end to DOCS foster care role


THE state's foster care system will be historically transformed with the announcement yesterday that 38 non-government agencies will take over the role of the Department of Community Services.

Lehigh Valley parent and educator testify at U.S. Senate education hearing

Lehigh Valley parent and educator testify at U.S. Senate education hearing

Debbie Jackson, an Easton parent of a child with behavioral challenges, shared her story on Capitol Hill Thursday morning during a hearing on how schools can handle such children without using seclusion or physical restraint.