The jury has officially been sequestered in the trial against a Henry County couple accused of killing their 2-year-old foster child. Jen...

The Massachusetts House on Wednesday passed a bill that would require the Department of Children and Families to report on its efforts to im...

Just months after the college admissions scandal, more evidence has surfaced of the lengths well-off parents will go to get ahead in the col...

I'll bet a lot of parents are making similar claims... In connection with a lawsuit for child custody, a former employee of the Los An...

The state Children, Youth and Families Department and several of its employees, supervisors and an approved foster parent have been named in...

A Northshore man has been booked on sex crimes against juveniles, according to the Louisiana Attorney General's Office. Investigators ...

Hundreds of children were sexually abused by predatory foster carers and residential home staff who were allowed to thrive, an inquiry has f...

A nonprofit law firm representing a group of New York City foster youth has resumed long-running litigation against the city’s Administratio...

A Macomb County mother at the center of a national adoption fraud case will stay behind bars until her trial. That’s the decision of a feder...

If Oregonians were expecting to see problems in the state's foster care system disappear overnight, they're in for a disappointment....

The American Civil Liberties Union told a judge Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration has separated more than 900 migrant chi...

A former juvenile social worker for the Waukesha County Department of Health and Human Services has been indicted on suspicion of possession...

A Winnipeg man who sexually abused three foster children over the course of nearly a decade has condemned his victims to a "lifetime of...

Police in Antioch, California have arrested a father and son on charges of sexually abusing multiple children under their care for six years...

FACEBOOK has been warned by the new Home Secretary that its plans to hide online messages risks police investigations into child abuse and t...

Māori leaders are staging two major protests in New Zealand, straining relations with the Labour coalition government and drawing accusation...

Laila Marie Daniel, 2-years-old, died in November 2015. Her foster mother and father, Jennifer and Joseph Rosenbaum, went on trial beginning...

The women at the centre of the St Patrick's Guild baby mix-up scandal are seeking court approval to bring lawsuits against the former ad...

New York City Council has signalled its intention to relax marijuana laws by pushing through a raft of new legislation focused around cannab...

Protecting children in the state of Florida. That's what several local lawmakers plan to do by refiling 'Jordan's Law' Monda...

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has announced it will hold hearings into abuse allegations in boarding schools in summer next year. Chair...

The grandmother of a 3-year-old girl, who died last year after alleged abuse, said she notified DHS about the abuse, but the agency did no...

The Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) shoulders the blame when a child is abused or dies. But there is only one authority that...

A group called Silent No More Against Maine's Department of Health and Human Services rallied outside of the DHHS office in Skowhega...

A star-studded roster of celebrities has teamed up with the organization Immigrant Families Together as part of a new campaign dedicated to ...