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 ...

Having met while working at a children's charity, Naomi and Martin believed that if any couple had the skills needed to provide an adopted child with the right mix of love, nurturing and guidance, it was them.

Explore adoption assistance for foster care adoption with Families Rising. Learn about eligibility, benefits, and supports to navigate the adoption journey.

Black and American Indian/Alaska Native children are overrepresented in child welfare and experience inequitable outcomes once they are involved with the system. Learn about racial disproportionality in child welfare and contributing factors.

Explore the overlap among families experiencing poverty and those reported to the child welfare system for neglect, the societal context within which poverty and neglect exist, and strategies for preventing and addressing both poverty and neglect.

Explore factors that contribute to racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system. The publication also outlines strategies to assist professionals with addressing these issues and decision-making along the continuum.

"By blaming the parents you're diverting attention away from the structural reasons," argues scholar Dorothy Roberts

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.

Diane Baird labeled her method for assessing families the “Kempe Protocol” after the renowned University of Colorado institute where she worked for decades. The school has yet to publicly disavow it.

The child welfare system strives to provide children and adolescents in foster care with a safe, nurturing environment through kinship and nonkinship foster care placement with the goal of either reunification with birth parents or adoption. Pediatricians can support families who care for children and adolescents who are fostered and adopted while attending to children’s medical needs and helping each child attain their developmental potential. Although this report primarily focuses on children in the US child welfare system, private and internationally adopted children often have similar needs.

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.

Foster parents, tasked with the 24-7 care of often-traumatized children, show up for parent-teacher meetings, ferry their charges to doctor’s appointments, supervise homework and serve up cuddles. Many work closely with struggling biological parents in hopes of an eventual reunion. These days, many foster parents are being asked to do even more, as an increasing […]

Jatoia Potts lost both her children because she couldn’t explain her baby’s injuries. She's still fighting to get them back with her family.

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

The 147-page report, “‘If I Wasn’t Poor, I Wouldn’t Be Unfit’: The Family Separation Crisis in the US Child Welfare System,” documents how conditions of poverty, such as a family’s struggle to pay rent or maintain housing, are misconstrued as neglect, and interpreted as evidence of an inability and lack of fitness to parent. Human Rights Watch and the ACLU found significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in child welfare involvement. Black children are almost twice as likely to experience investigations as white children and more likely to be separated from their families.

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.

In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.

In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.

Oftentimes, youth enter foster care due to neglect.  According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data for Fiscal Year 2021, of the nearly 400,000 children in foster care in the United States, 63% of these youth found themselves within the child welfare system because neglect – over 130,000 youth in…

We surround families in crisis with caring, compassionate community. Safe Families for Children is a movement fueled by compassion to keep children safe and families intact. We temporarily host children and provide a network of support to families in crisis while they get back on their feet.

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One death came after family courts ordered a child to live with a paedophile, a BBC investigation finds.

A bill introduced before Congress would give states greater authority in deciding whether to seek the termination of parental rights in child welfare cases.

Michael and Catherine Burke allege that the state’s Department of Children and Families discriminated against them for their Catholic viewpoints.