A new study shows foster care numbers continue to increase across the nation. That's true too here in North Dakota, but the state is dec...

Desperate parents are persuading less senior judges to transfer Court of Protection cases higher to force public authorities to act - a prac...

The mother of an Otero County teen with a developmental disability alleges in a new lawsuit that her daughter was raped repeatedly by a long...

State child-welfare investigators visited the Phoenix home of Donielle King one week before they got a call that her year-old son was de...

So President Trump has tapped the former head of Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, Mary Mayhew to head the federal ...

A 37-year-old Russian man who admitted to committing over 900 rapes and/or sex attacks was sentenced to 22 years in jail, according to publi...

 A prosecutor will request a review to determine whether an Iowa social worker should be charged with a crime for giving false testimony in ...

Earlier this year, lawyers asked a federal judge to remove Mississippi’s control from the state’s foster care system. The state has been ext...

A father and son are suspected of sending a potentially deadly explosive device to a social worker's home. Sources say it is believed ...

A child protection case involving a family of seven children from Eel Ground First Nation is raising alarm bells about the challenge of find...

Placing children and young people in state care can have disastrous consequences and greatly increase their risk of becoming chronic offen...

A five-year-old boy is fighting for his life, and his grandparents say their cries for help went unanswered after he was taken to the ho...

A new investigation should be opened into Ireland’s forced adoption system in mother and baby homes, a report has said. The final report o...

A tent city in the west Texas desert set up to hold immigrant children has expanded its capacity by nearly 10 times to 3,800 beds si...

In the United States, child-protection agencies have been given unlimited powers to confiscate children and prosecute parents without due pr...

Saturday marks the first step in the Saskatchewan government's effort to observe past wrongs and consider a "meaningful" apolo...

Last Friday, Shavon Grossman spent the morning with her infant daughter, Khloe Williams, before giving the baby back to her foster fami...

Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) Secretary Gina Meier-Hummel announced Thursday a significant decrease in the number of you...

When Chad and Jennifer Brackeen received a call in June 2016 from a child welfare worker asking if they would be willing to take in a 10-mon...

et’s pretend for a moment you’re a parent. You’ve got a child, and the child breaks an arm. You take the child to the hospital and get treat...

A new report published Thursday in Scotland shows that children suffered abuse at two children’s care homes run by a Catholic religious ...

The city’s child-welfare agency ignored evidence that foster-care contractors weren’t safeguarding kids — despite more than 1,000 cases of n...

A recent report from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto states that they are not only ready to do euthanasia on children but their po...

The Kansas Department for Children and Families says the number of children who have run away from their foster care placement has decrease...

The husband of an award-winning foster mother has been jailed for raping a troubled 11-year-old girl. Frederick Charles Niehus, 73, was se...