SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a startling number -- about 22% of San Francisco's unhoused population were once in the foster care system, according to a city report. That's what makes the work of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 36,000 New Mexico children were raised by their grandparents or other next-of-kin in 2023. (Photo courtesy of New Mexico ...

With January being National Mentoring Month, Kinship of Martin County is full throttle into a new year of assisting local ...

Rearing a child is hard work, physically, emotionally and financially. Ask any parent or guardian. There is no down time, no vacation, from parental responsibility. If you’re lucky, you have an ...

Sometimes the biological parents of a child are unable or unwilling to raise their child. This can be for a variety of reasons. When this is the case, family members often step up to care for their ...

Nearly 3 million grandparents across the country are caring for their children’s children, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Often they have no formal custody arrangement, no legal guardianship and ...

The Kinship Care Program run by the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country could cease to be should the state budget pass as now proposed. "Depending on what kind of money we get, I ...

September is National Kinship Care Month, and on Sept. 15, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) hosted a kickoff event for the new Colorado Kinnected Kinship Navigator Program at the Adams ...

Eight years ago, Linda Baker took her infant granddaughter, Journey, from her son and his wife because their drug use was making for an unsafe home. "They didn't fight me," the 56-year-old said. "I ...

Most have heard excerpts of a short story telling of a small boy picking up sea stars trapped on the beach as the tide receded and how he tossed them back toward water. When questioned by a passerby ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster was joined by South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) Director Michael Leach, members of the General Assembly, non-profit ...