Foster parenting in Kansas can involve navigating a web of officials, social workers and contractors. For years, those parents could take ...

Connecticut child welfare authorities are investigating how a woman managed to flee a supervised visit with her three children and her convi...

They're among metro Detroit's most vulnerable children: teenage girls who have been abused, neglected or suffer from mental health i...

Two recent bills proposed by state legislators in Illinois and Iowa reveal a disturbing perspective on parental rights that’s becoming more ...

Thousands of migrant children who crossed the southern border into the U.S. have reported they were sexually assaulted while in government c...

An East Texas man was indicted Friday after he was accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old Keller girl, sexually assaulting her and sending reco...

A Southington man charged with sexual assault in East Hampton last week is already facing sexual assault charges related to his role as a fo...

Health visitors should monitor new parents and their children until they are three-and-a-half, according to MPs. The checks would help ide...

Social workers are being “strongly encouraged” to leave their roles at the county council’s failing children’s services despite staff shorta...

An Abilene foster mother accused of hitting a 2-year-old and dragging him across the floor by his leg has been arrested. April Weaver, 24,...

When South Carolina’s 124 state representatives take up the state’s $9.3 billion proposed budget in two weeks, it will not include $44.5 mil...

New York City's child welfare agency has a reputation for unjustly targeting low-income families of color. Can it change? More >...

A New Mexico foster parent convicted on six counts of rape will not serve any time in prison. Manual Preciado, 64, was arrested in 2015 af...

A judge has directed that footage taken by a mother of the events surrounding her seven-month-old baby girl being brought into care by the a...

An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for a 33-year-old Child Welfare employee accused of stealing money from a disable person under her ca...

An East Texas man was indicted Friday after he was accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old Keller girl, sexually assaulting her and sending reco...

A HSE care worker who also fostered children told a court a child sexual abuse allegation, which he denied, had a "catastrophic" i...

Months after the Trump administration announced an end to its widescale separation of migrant parents and children, the policy remains a hea...

Foster care is difficult for children of all ages, but adolescents experience a unique set of issues. Older children are more likely to be p...

The tent encampments scattered across Seattle do not just contain adults — behind many canvas flaps and under many overpasses can be found f...

An Indianapolis foster father who abused a baby girl is headed to prison to serve four years. Kyle Rice, 27, was given a 12-year se...

A mum watched a man act out a rape-and-murder fantasy on her 14-year-old adopted daughter. Former foster parent Sara Packer, 44, of Al...

Kendra Owens doesn’t remember a lot about the five months she spent in foster care before her 18th birthday. Her therapist says that it’s he...

A New Mexico foster parent convicted on six counts of rape will not serve any time in prison. Manual Preciado, 64, was arrested in 2015 af...

Nikolas Crosby-Garbotz called 911 because he thought his infant daughter was having a seizure. He got medical assistance. But he also got ...