A former deputy director of the Kansas Department for Children and Families alleges the agency has a record of systematically underreporting...

Among the many dozens of pages of terrible stories and horrifying details contained in the Motherisk Commission report released this week, o...

After several months of argument over the narrowing of certain evidence to be presented during the Rosenbaum trial, it appears now that ...

State officials said Thursday that 6-year-old Preston Connor Edmunds' life might have been saved if prevention services had been ava...

A Clay County couple is accused of mentally and physically abusing a child under their care last year, according to the Clay County Sh...

The parents of Fabian Garett-Garcia have waited seven months for more answers on how their 3-year-old boy died. But even after the autopsy r...

EDMONTON — Beatrix Massee is a Cree woman from Alberta but she speaks with a slight Tennessee twang — a legacy of the foster homes she grew ...

The former foster parents of a Vancouver girl who was taken from their care by the Washington Department of Social and Health Services and p...

Two parents are facing charges of childsnatching after they were accused of taking their infant daughter from the custody of the Rhode Islan...

SAN ANTONIO — A local grandmother is fighting to keep her young grandchildren safe, and in her care, after years of alleged abuse. Maria ...

After Bangor school officials say they shared suspicions of abuse with the agency, Maine's Senate president urges Gov. Paul LePage t...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A state consultant says Indiana’s child welfare agency is facing a shortage of mental health and substance abuse treatme...

‘I almost think these kids would be safer at the Training School,’ said Rep. Patricia A. Serpa, D-West Warwick. At least there at the juveni...

BELFAST, Maine (AP)   Former neighbors of a couple accused of fatally beating a 10-year-old girl said they heard abuse and reported it t...

A Poplar Hill First Nation family is struggling to find answers as to how their 15-year-old daughter was left alone to film her suicide in a...

As an independent commission in Ontario released a report Monday slamming Motherisk’s hair analysis program, which led to an untold number o...

Child protection case managers in the Northern Territory underwent mandatory training four years ago after it was revealed a small number of...

An immigrant teen from Long Island, who is among the chief plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the federal government and its contr...

The Eckerd Connects Board of Directors, which is now facing a foster care crisis in Hillsborough County, held a closed meeting Wednesday mor...

A controversial Child Protective Services supervisor is back on the job this month in one North Carolina county, after years of legal wrangl...

When Ethiopia stopped allowing its children to be adopted by foreign parents in January, it became the latest country to eliminate or sharpl...

TAMPA — With three months still left in its fiscal year, the agency that runs foster care in Hillsborough County says it is facing a $4.1 mi...

Oregon officials have agreed to drastically reduce by mid-2020 their use of hotels and other unsuitable settings as short-term homes for fos...

Can the same data-crunching technology that matches potential couples based on personality, values and interests help Florida’s foster child...

In the two weeks since Nikolas Cruz gunned down 17 people at his former high school, we have heard a lot about the failure of law enforcemen...