Following an NPR investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance to state and county officials that lets them stop charging parents whose children are placed in foster care.

In at least 36 states and the District of Columbia, child welfare agencies use a child's benefit checks to offset the cost of foster care, often leaving them with a tattered safety net as adults.

It's shockingly easy for CPS to destroy poor, Black families.

In the name of anti-racism, Bethany is willing to throw away a huge victory. Black children will bear the brunt of this decision.

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Resource parents provide love and support, and many former foster youth go on to graduate college and rise above their traumas and struggles.

Stolen children, sealed records, unwed mothers, orphan trains, foreign adoptions, good intentions, bad intentions, the fate of detained…

A disproportionate number of Black children are removed from their homes in L.A. County. Now, the county has backed a "blind removal" pilot for study.

Parents are rehoming their adopted children on the internet, just like pets. And it must stop.

African Americans are in the minority in America, but black children cost less to adopt and are in the majority when it comes to needing forever homes.

Darker-skinned children wait longer to be adopted and it costs more to adopt a white baby.

The uptick of unaccompanied migrant children at the border is a challenge for agencies having to rebuild gutted systems to shelter them

The leader of a megachurch in California is accused of torturing her three adopted daughters, killing one of them.

The foster care system is tasked with protecting the welfare of children suffering from abuse and neglect. However, many children taken from their families are subjected to sexual abuse and left in a more vulnerable and traumatized state. Several localized studies demonstrate the startling implications of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in the foster care...