The decision is careful to not criticize the Family Court or ACS, which for years has sought the arrest warrants when children it's resp...

I have two folders on my desk. One has articles with titles like “Pot-smoking Mamas” and “Pot for Parents,” espousing the use of marijuana b...

A brawl last month at Red Rock Canyon School in St. George, Utah, which housed 24 Oregon foster care children, started with two young people...

A new report from the Illinois auditor general slammed the state’s troubled child welfare agency for failing to follow its own policies when...

In the state of Washington when a foster child is abused to the point of nearly dying, there are steps in place to get to the bottom of what...

The death of a McHenry County 5-year-old last month, whose parents are charged with his murder, has many pointing the finger at the Illino...

The city’s embattled child-welfare agency routinely hands over neglected and abused kids to foster parents without proof that background che...

Winnie the Pooh star Jim Cummings and his ex-wife’s legal battle has been so volatile, that law enforcement, including officials with ch...

In Ohio, parents of children with severe mental health issues sometimes face an excruciating decision: To get their child costly care, they ...

I bring you the Presidential Proclamation of National Foster Parent Glorification Month.  If this doesn't demonstrate that President T...

Three Thunder Bay foster homes — closed by the province in 2017 after the death of a First Nations youth — had feces- and blood-stained floo...

A mum has hit back at critics who reported her to child protection services after she "punched" a spider crawling on her toddl...

As many as 3,000 children are in foster care in Alaska on any given day, spread across some 1,300 licensed foster homes, according to Alaska...

Charges against two fired Tacoma police officers who told a woman to beat her 9-year-old grandson with a belt were dismissed Thursday. Jes...

The family of a toddler living in an El Mirage foster home, where an older child reported being abused by his father for two years, is quest...

The Department of Child Safety's enforcement of confidentiality is peppered with exceptions — particularly when the public is paying att...

A sociologist said that when it comes to children’s welfare, homosexual “marriage” accomplishes the exact opposite of conjugal marriage, pla...

A 16-year-old boy from Guatemala died days after being apprehended in the U.S., officials confirmed Wednesday. They said he developed sympto...

The 80-year-old state library is a hulking, marble box of a building whose tall, narrow windows resemble the slots in an electrical outlet. ...

The agencies contracting with DHS falsified a record and mishandled his medical care. More >>  Ethan Okula’s foster mother was s...

Growing up, Dylan Puckett estimates he went to more than 13 different schools. As a foster child, he regularly moved to new placements, and ...

A Brown County foster mom says she was poked by a needle in a diaper bag. She not only wants the county to pay her out-of-pocket health cost...

Three Thunder Bay foster homes — closed by the province in 2017 after the death of a First Nations youth — had feces- and blood-stained floo...

What a judge told Lisa Koykar almost two decades ago became a sort of catalyst for the rest of her life. It wasn't anything particular...

Guy O'Donnell is sitting in the Worcester courthouse, waiting for a decision that's been put off several times before. O'Donne...