A secretive process that took a child away from his parents in northeast Colorado is about to become a lot less secretive.
Do confidentiality rules protect children and their families, or shield government agencies from public scrutiny?
Dozens of youth advocates marched on the State House Wednesday afternoon to demand a role in selecting the new leader of the ...
One of the largest child labor cases in U.S. history was settled last year, when Packers Sanitation Services of Kieler, Wis., paid $1.5 million in penalties after a Department of Labor ...
The Justice Department is poised to indict long-serving Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, on Friday, ...
In January 2001, five-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in the basement of her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly respected former caseworker ...
Apr. 23—A proposal to create a standalone department to oversee child welfare in Maine died in the Legislature after the House of Representatives failed to hold a vote — even though the bill had ...
The Supreme Court seems likely to curtail federal agencies’ interpretations of laws passed by Congress, but Washington ...
Thousands of Massachusetts parents face scrutiny from the state’s child protection system and, with it, the all-consuming fear of losing custody of a child. For many of these families, poverty ...
Gov. Jim Justice spoke about a Child Protective Services case during his Tuesday, March 23, 2004 briefing. (Screenshot from Gov. Jim Justice’s briefing) Child Protective Services had “no idea” about a ...
WASHINGTON -- Migrant children who wait in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border for the Border Patrol to process them are in the agency's custody and are subject to a long-standing court ...
Accessibility to firearms, particularly handguns, influences the rate of teen suicides. Handguns were used in nearly 70% of teen suicides in 1990, up 20% since 1970. A home with a handgun is ...