A 15-year-old girl, identified only by her given name Sevgi, has been ordered to be separated from her foster family as her adoptive father ...

Freyja Haraldsdóttir, former substitute MP for Bright Future, has filed a case against the Government Agency for Child Protection (Barnavern...

Houston, Nov 14 A family court judge in Dallas has ruled that the 4-year-old sister of Sherin Mathews, the Indian toddler found dead in a cu...

The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of roughly 2,100 Mainers who receive foster care benefits were accidentally posted to a pub...

Kansas police say that since 2014, at least 81 children who were supposed to be monitored by the Kansas Department for Children and Famili...

Atlanta police have secured warrants for two suspects in the murder case of 17-year-old Dennetta Franks, a foster care girl who was found fa...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state agency in Kansas charged with protecting children from abuse and neglect instead works to hide how it oper...

Time to lock up teen thugs.” That’s how one newspaper summed up the views of the Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, after she ...

A secretive church congregation in North Carolina has used money, influence and lies to rip more than two dozen children from their parents ...

The adoptive father of tragic 18-month-old Elsie Scully-Hicks should be hanged for his crime, the girl's biological grandmother ...

Nashville school officials failed to tell child welfare investigators that they suspected a female high school teacher had engaged in inappr...

LANSING – Michigan's child welfare agency is testing whether an early infusion of cash will help abused and neglected children find safe...

About five years ago, lawmakers in New Hampshire approved a series of changes to improve their citizens’ access to homeschooling, but they n...

WASHINGTON — When Sara Horner adopted her son, Rylan, in 2013, her husband, Justin, had just left his career as a college track coach to sta...

The parents of Sherin Mathews are set to return to back to court Monday morning for the custody of their biological 4-year-old daughter....

John Wedger said he was forced into early retirement from the Metropolitan Police after suffering a breakdown last year brought on b...

Experts have long recognized inequalities in America's child-welfare system: When kids share identical circumstances except for race, bl...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — More money, more social workers and better pay. That sums up what a 100-page report presented to lawmakers Thursday found...

NOXEN TWP. — A teenager is accused of biting and shoving a Luzerne County Children and Youth employee during an incident in Wyoming County. ...

Clint Blansett’s 10-year-old son had been dead just a few days when a social worker from the state knocked on the family’s door in south-cen...

Adoption speak in my house was forbidden. I was adopted at three months, as was my brother. He was two years older than me. I have always ...

An Oregon teen is accused of shooting and killing his foster mother and his two sisters in Portland. KRON 4 reports that the 16-year-o...

An Indianapolis teen was arrested last week in connection to a house fire that left his adoptive father Jason Doan, 45, dead, ABC affiliate ...

(KUTV) The Department of Human Services has placed Heart and Soul Adoption, Inc. of Centerville on a conditional license after finding viola...

Authorities on Thursday jailed a 58-year-old man after a 16-year-old foster child he had befriended told Child Protective Services the m...