Foster parents are to be commended for the commitment that they make to care for abused and neglected children in their community. Foster parents provide placements for children from infancy to late teens, who come to the foster care system ...

Although government spending on the child welfare system totaled $33 billion in 2018, the most recent year for which an estimate is available, it’s still failing to meet all children’s needs because of overwhelming demand. Abuse and neglect investigations, foster ...

When La’Chell was 4 years old, she had been living with her Aunt off and on for most of her life, as her mother rarely had stable housing. When Aunt wanted to enroll her niece into Head Start, a consent ...

NEW YORK — Child welfare agencies across the United States, often beleaguered in the best of times, are scrambling to confront new challenges that the coronavirus poses for caseworkers, children and parents. For caseworkers, the potential toll is physical and ...

SALEM, Oregon — State attorneys representing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and the Department of Human Services filed a motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit targeting Oregon’s troubled foster care system, arguing in part that the state is already taking significant ...

TULSA, Okla. — A couple’s lawsuit contends that an Oklahoma law allowing tribes to intervene in private adoption cases involving Native American children violates their constitutional rights. The Oklahoma Indian Child Welfare Act permits tribes to interfere even when both ...

HELENA, Mont. — When parents lose custody of their children due to abuse or neglect, their grandparents often step in to scoop up the pieces. In Montana, dozens of those grandparents have organized to push back against a state agency ...