Back in the '80s, there were two television shows featuring black children adopted by well-off white families. They were two of the most...

The Salvation Army has lost its funding to care for vulnerable children in parts of Victoria because of concerns over the quality of care th...

Holly Estes Monroe County child welfare officials removed four foster children, all younger than 3, from a foster home on Big Pine Key, as a...

A former foster parent pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually assaulting foster children who were in his care and now faces the possibility...

Seven Mi'kmaq First Nations in New Brunswick have created a new child welfare agency aimed at preventing children from being taken away ...

Black and Indigenous children appear to be put into care in relatively far greater numbers than other racial groups in Ontario, according to...

An ex-military couple convicted of abusing their young foster children received additional punishment on Thursday during a resentencing ...

The alleged level of deception is stunning and the number of lies staggering, really, in court documents involving the Woodworth, N.D., ...

“Mother brought me my grandmother with the words: “I Want what you want — give it to the orphanage”” More >>  The fate of the orph...

Episode # 2.  Please bare with me and my typos.  Doing it all on my cell phone.

The education outcomes for foster kids in Colorado are grim and getting worse: Just 23 percent graduated from high school on time last year....

A Manitoba judge is suggesting services for high-risk youth be reviewed following the death of an Indigenous teenage girl who hanged herself...

Kansas plans to post mug shots of people who owe thousands of dollars in back child support in an effort to shame them into paying or so...

Former Bristol, Tennessee Principal Jerry Poteat is asking a judge to over-turn a state Department of Children's Services decision that ...

Rochdale’s recently resigned council leader is facing a police investigation after an official inquiry concluded that he lied over evidence ...

Across Australia on any given night, an MCG’s worth of people will experience the cruelty of homelessness. That’s close to 120,000 with nowh...

Without a judge's approval, child-welfare workers and police will be able to remove a child from his family home in only two circumstanc...

She spent her 16th birthday in custody at the Brandon Correctional Centre. No one visited her. A week later she hanged herself. The teen, ...

Parents who home-school their children have hit out at government proposals to increase oversight of home education, saying they undermine p...

Heavy caseloads and high house prices are among the reasons Bristol is failing to retain its children's social workers, a report has fou...

Less than one in five children’s social workers think their current workload is manageable, a Community Care survey has revealed. The sur...

“This is a system in desperate need of an infusion of resources and yet the budget continues to be cut,” said Ben Lessing, chairman of the R...

A Taylor County jury on Wednesday found a former Child Protective Services worker guilty of tampering with evidence after a child died a...