Queens Village: In 1975, the Daily News wrote a scathing series on foster care in New York City. It was so troubling that Congress, via Rep. Mario Biaggi, decided to hold a hearing about what was ...

The story of the Turpin children—13 siblings discovered living in a “House of Horrors” in Riverside County in 2018—shocked the nation. Unfortunately, for six of those children, the abuse didn’t end ...

Judges of the Nebraska Supreme Court (and when they were appointed), front row from left: Lindsey Miller-Lerman (1998), Chief Justice Michael Heavican (2006), William Cassel (2012). Back row, from ...

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 ...

Children in foster care are in a better position to cope with childhood emotional abuse if they have higher self-esteem, according to a new study by researchers at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel ...

A second foster mother this summer has been charged with abusing a child in her care. The foster mother, Johnnie Denise Douma, 47, is facing one count of child abuse after an exam showed the ...

Many states are failing to track how often children in foster care facilities are abused, the Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General said in a report. The report, published Wednesday, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County Council recently renewed a major contract that secures specialty housing for youth in foster care, including at one facility that has been investigated for child ...

The costs of a compromised foster care system, and some possible solutions In this series, I have talked about the paradox of the foster care system, the problems inherent in the system, and the real ...

A Missouri foster mother has been charged with child abuse and endangerment as authorities investigate whether she traded an adopted daughter to someone in Texas for a monkey and mistreated other ...

Pawsitive Recovery launched in Denver in 2021 and is so popular that the SPCA is looking to expand it across the country.

Two Scottish councils may have to pay more than £1m in compensation to people who experienced "severe" abuse as children at the hands of their foster carers. Lawyers for two of the victims said they ...