Children with disabilities in foster care are extremely vulnerable, facing risks of maltreatment and removal from their homes and greater need for healthcare services. New research suggests that ...

Most of California’s foster family agencies are about to lose their insurance. Almost 9,000 children could be taken from their homes as early as next month. KPBS reporter Katie Hyson looked into the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas organization is working to put a face and a name to the thousands of children living in the state’s foster care system — one portrait at a time. Heart Galleries of Texas has ...

I've spent over four decades in courtrooms watching an American tragedy continue to unfold. Children—some barely old enough to speak—face the traumas of abuse, neglect, removal from their natural ...

Ms. Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “No Way to Treat a Child.” In February 2023, Phoenix Castro was born in San Jose, Calif., suffering from neonatal ...

In the United States, many children enter the traditional foster care system—and find themselves living with strangers under an unfamiliar roof. Consider data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which ...

Katrina White remembers just how determined her parents were to see her, and all her siblings, go to college. That never happened. She lost her father when she was nine years older. Then, she lost her ...

Alabama has fewer children in foster care than six years ago and is achieving success in reuniting families, the head of the state social services agency told lawmakers Wednesday. Alabama Department ...

To what lengths should we go to reduce racial disparities in the child welfare system? In 2021 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to require the Department of Children and Family ...

May is National Foster Care Awareness Month. It is typically a time when we social workers bring awareness to the needs of children in foster care. We honor, too, the families who selflessly step in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A group of Tennessee foster children is suing the state in a class action lawsuit, which claims the Department of Children’s Services fails the children it is supposed to ...

Ted Hudacko’s fate was sealed when his son’s court-appointed counsel, Daniel Harkins, wrote in his notes, “[t]hese parents have a choice, they can either continue to believe that they should be in ...