Missing Children Many children in foster care go missing each year, often fleeing abuse, neglect, or unsafe placements, ...

Research shows that early kinship care can reduce trauma, but neither research nor the law supports disrupting an established ...

Luz Garcia and her husband have been fostering children since 2018. But nothing could have prepared her for the moment her son, 9-year-old Xeius, met his newborn foster baby brother, Benny— a bond ...

A pair of sick foster parents allegedly beat their 3-year-old “special needs” foster daughter to death after meting out months of abuse because the girl would cry and take too long to chew her food, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Foster families caring for children whose biological parents are unable to raise them are expected to become eligible for multi-child benefits. The Anti-corruption & Civil Rights Commission announced ...

Before aging out of the foster care system, Avenues West resident Angel Shelton never knew her struggles were meant for a ...

Erin Foster, creator of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This,” admitted that she was hesitant to hire a baby nurse initially. Foster, who welcomed her first daughter with husband Simon Tikhman in May, ...

The 'Nobody Wants This' creator shares her daughter with husband Simon Tikhman Erin Foster is opening up about her decision to hire a baby nurse. Appearing on the Ladygang podcast, the Nobody Wants ...

After years of planning, the state has launched a specialized plan to reduce strain on families and county agencies working ...