As any high schooler can tell you, finding paid work experience in today’s economy can be a real challenge. But youth...
As fall rolls around, parents and young people are preparing for a new school year. So too are teachers, school...
Many people don't like teenage fosters because by the time they are a certain age, they become "unruly" and "know it alls."...
In today’s world, having access to your vital records (birth certificate, Social Security card, state ID card) is, in fact, vital. The...
Foster care placement has been described as the most tragic experience faced by a child because it introduces instability...
In New York City, the agency that handles children’s services asked for 40 percent more removals of children from their families to...
For a mother of two daughters in Will County, Illinois, known in legal papers as Kelly, the morning of May 1 began...
Seven days of deadlocked jury deliberations in the sex abuse trial of a single foster father are over. Despite allegations that he...
Growing up in New York state’s foster care system in the 1980s, I was well aware of the plight of those who...
Personal stories from foster parents, foster children and their counselors. Explore our digital magazine with news stories, personal essays from youth and...
Of all the crimes against children committed in the name of “child protection,” none is worse than when white America weaponized child...
It’s hard to imagine many jobs more difficult than that of a caseworker for a child protective services agency.
Chelsea Bramblett didn’t know what to expect the first time she showed up at the statehouse in Tallahassee...
Let’s assume that there has been a real increase in parental substance abuse. The biggest flaw in HHS’ logic is the implicit...
New data in a recent Health and Human Services report shows both that the number of youth in the foster care system...
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“I didn’t know how to be a mom,” Lisa Galvan said. “I was used to being by myself. It was really hard...
We American taxpayers spend many, many millions of dollars on chemical restraints, also known as antipsychotic medications, that we administer to children...
Only a few years apart, Andrew Lavin and Jennifer Cohen grew up together, first in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and then in Staten...
Yes, the reasonable efforts clause has lots of loopholes. But it does not say “make reasonable efforts unless you don’t have time.”