Advocates and foster youth leaders pleaded with lawmakers to reinstate a hard-earned exemption for their impoverished peers, ...

President Donald Trump held a ceremonial bill signing July 4 for his legislative package cutting taxes, and health care and ...

Michigan jurists call on lawmakers to protect parents from neglect accusations when they're unable to manage teens’ mental health crises.

Decades ago, Hilda Onley was confined to the Hudson Training School for Girls in upstate New York. Now she's seeking justice ...

The Senate today advanced President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" which is expected to cost millions of Americans access to ...

After nixing a list of states chosen by the Biden administration, Trump officials are relaunching a pilot on measuring the ...

Opinion: Overstating what we know in child welfare about poverty and cash assistance — and obscuring what we don't — serves ...

I have made it my priority to model what healthy fatherhood looks like today, even if I couldn’t offer it then, writes ...

Keeping siblings together preserves a sense of family when everything else has been disrupted, writes Naya Taylor.

In Minnesota, a significant number of teens are voluntarily handed over by parents who say they cannot manage their behaviors at home due to severe mental health conditions. Photo by Adobe Stock.

While making cuts to some child welfare programs, California's new budget provided an emergency bailout to private foster ...

“Parental relinquishments” account for 6% of foster care entries in Texas; critics say public investments in mental health care will curb the practice.