Florida child welfare authorities turned over a 17-year-old foster child to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, ...

Florida House Democrats in Tallahassee are demanding answers from the state Department of Children and Families over its role ...

A North Dakota couple is facing murder charges after allegedly beating their 3-year-old foster daughter with autism to death, ...

California may halve promised funds for orphaned and foster children, originally set at $100 million, as the state grapples with a $12 billion deficit.

Most adoptions focus on babies. But for this Brick family and their teenage girls, the rewards of older adoption have been ...

A long-standing rule may have been violated by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) after a ...

CHS said the county with the most kids in foster care in North Carolina is currently Guilford County at 721 children. The organization is working to recruit more foster parents to keep up with the ...

Sophia Fox, a Fort Myers High School student, is the founder of HALO (Helping and Leading Others), a student-led organization ...

A toddler, age 2, spent the night in a government office on Kauaʻi. A 13-year-old slept on an Oʻahu office futon for almost two months.

A Cook County juvenile court judge says State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has filed an ethics complaint against him over ...

Records show that despite documenting years of violence and abuse, the state allowed the operators to open two other ...