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.

If parents are unable to take care of their children, the latter may end up in foster care. But what if the authorities believe that the couple will never be able to take care of their children? Such a case may end up in forced adoption.

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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.

If the bill is passed, it will take effect on July 1.

"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.

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Explore data about state approaches, children in care, and how money is invested in foster care vs. preventive and permanency services.

2020 Basic Rate Foster Care Subsidy Payments New York State Foster Care Boarding Rates   Foster parents are entitled to a monthly payment allowance intended to help them cover a portion of the costs incurred by caring for children in their home. Basic foster care payments are made to foster parents who provide care for a child

Their parents are generally well-educated and affluent. They receive more time and educational resources from those parents than the average child gets from theirs. Yet they get into more conflicts with their classmates at school, display relative little interest and enthusiasm about learning tasks, and register only middling academic performance. About whom are we talking? Adopted children. This is the paradox of adoption in America.

ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF Children Adopted from Foster Care: Child and Family Characteristics, Adoption Motivation, and Well-Being May 2011

From Adoptalk 2018, Issue 4; Adoptalk is a benefit of NACAC membership.  The number of children and teens in US foster care and the number of youth adopted from foster care rose in 2017, according to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS).  Every fiscal year, AFCARS collects data on all the children in foster care and […]

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The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) collects case-level information on all children in foster care and those who have been adopted with title IV-E agency involvement.

Provides details on the reasons why children and youth entered care, the number of placement changes children and youth may experience, various reasons they exit care, and the rates of maltreatment in out-of-home care.