To see how a state improves its child welfare system while under a court order, look at New Jersey. A new report...
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) last week ordered all of its volunteers to go through training about sex abuse, after years...
The president’s budget director fired a warning shot at federally funded youth programs today, saying the government wastes money on too many...
For sale no more: The Crittenton home has been welcoming girls since 1932. Looking to the future: A young mother and her...
Let’s Move: First lady Michelle Obama unveils the findings of a childhood obesity report at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in...
Nearly one in five U.S. youths technically will be a runaway before age 18, according to a new report released today. On...
The president’s budget director fired a warning shot at federally funded youth programs today, saying the government wastes money on too many...
If someone gets kicked out of a youth program for inappropriate behavior with the kids – giving them cigarettes, showing up...
Depending on how you look at it, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) was punished last month for trying to keep...
The United Kingdom is instituting a system to register virtually all of the its youth workers in one place and to...
In what appears to be biggest judgment ever against an American youth-serving organization for sex abuse, an Oregon jury today hit the...
An Arkansas state judge last week overturned a voter referendum that banned unmarried couples from adopting. The law was widely seen as...
Anyone overhauling child welfare and juvenile justice systems might want to watch the bumpy implementation of reform in Nebraska. Two of the...
Washington, D.C. – It happens every Sunday morning all across America: Parents awaken to find that their normally responsible teenager never came...
The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the child welfare systems for state of Nevada and for...
Should the Boy Scouts say sorry? Should the pope resign? Those are among the questions that people have been asking in recent...
In a case that could have significant implications for one of the country’s most venerated youth-serving organizations, a Portland, Ore., jury today...
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Poussaint: Told to keep mum about Baby Einstein. Lots of groups call themselves “youth advocates,” but in truth, few of them stick...
Susan A. ClancyBasic Books256 pages. $25 When I began researching and writing about child sex abuse two decades ago, one thing...