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Exploring the complex dynamics between adoption, child abuse, and family violence, and the implications for adoptive families and social services

Suppose, hypothetically, you could gather in one room 333 former foster children. Now, suppose you asked how many of them had been abused while...

Foster care abuse statistics shine a light on the importance of proper foster parent training to provide a brighter future for every child.

Objectif: Comment prodiguer de bons soins aux enfants qui sont placés à l’extérieur de leur foyer est un sujet de grande discussion au Royaume-Uni. Le…

Objectives. To estimate the cumulative prevalence of confirmed child maltreatment and foster care placement for US children and changes in prevalence between 2011 and 2016. Methods. We used synthetic cohort life tables and data from the Adoption and ...

A 5-year-old boy died after being left in a hot car in Omaha, Nebraska, for about seven hours, authorities said.

Public acknowledgement of the discriminatory harms perpetrated by the child welfare system is long overdue.

After the Sandusky child abuse scandal rocked Pennsylvania, the state required more professionals to report suspected child abuse. That led to a strained child welfare system and more unsubstantiated reports against low-income families.

UPDATE (2/16/2023) -- Columbus Police announced Friday morning that police discovered the body of 5-year-old Darnell Taylor in a sewage drain near Cleveland.

A movement to change the child welfare system asks caseworkers to speak up.

More than 3 million U.S. children were involved in an intervention for suspected abuse or neglect in a single year. Advocates say a disproportionate impact on families of color makes reform urgent.

Latrisha Greene was sentenced to up to 28 years in prison for lying while under oath about knowing that her husband was brutally beating their children.

Married couple Jennifer and Sarah Hart killed themselves and their six children in March 2018. A new episode of Donald Glover’s Atlanta seems to take its inspiration from the tragic foster system case, writes Sheila Flynn

Jennifer and Sarah Hart killed themselves and murdered their six adopted children in 2018 by driving their SUV off a cliff in California.

Devonte Hart and his five siblings were starved and physically abused before they were driven off a cliff by their adoptive mother.

A Holly Hill man accused of sexually abusing two foster children in his care will remain in jail without bond.

"He had requested siblings and females or younger children."

His agency is working with law enforcement after one of its licensed foster fathers, Justin Johnson Senior, was arrested and accused of making child pornography.

The weather is warming up, but not everyone can jump in the pool.

9 Investigates continues to push for answers after a Sanford foster father was arrested and accused of creating pornography featuring the children in his care.

"There's no place in hell that would accept this individual for the stuff that he has done to children," Sanford police Chief Cecil Smith said.