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In June 2017, at a family picnic in a park in Aurora, Colorado, Vanessa Peoples noticed that one of her young sons had slipped away. Peoples, who was studying to be a nurse, is not the first parent to ...

The law, which seeks to keep intact Black families and others who are over-represented in the system, has been halted in the ...

The case of a child who was killed by his mother shortly after being returned from foster care has shed a rare and needed ...

The sun had just begun to rise over Manhattan on an August morning in 2013. Angeline Montauban was whispering into the phone as she crouched in the bathroom of her apartment. As her partner and their ...

New Jersey’s child welfare system — once considered to be among the most dysfunctional and mismanaged in the nation — has been “extensively repaired” over the last 19 years and should be ready to ...

A stuffed toy with a checklist of items to be packed into a bag to help a foster child settle into their foster home. (Ben Hasty / MediaNews Group / Reading Eagle via Getty Images) By signing up, you ...

Nunavut's minister of Families and the youth and child representative join InFocus to talk about the crisis in the child welfare system.

Gov. Tim Walz will propose extra funding to hire more child protection workers and state lawmakers will meet Dec. 4 to begin discussing potential reforms in the wake of a Star Tribune investigation ...

Children of color in Michigan are more likely to be placed in institutional settings, stay there for long periods of time and age out of the foster care system without a family. As a result of these ...

An investigation by Carolina Public Press finds inconsistencies in how counties decide to remove children from potentially dangerous homes Whenever signs exist that a child is being abused or ...