Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The number of impoverished Rhode Island children removed from their homes in 2023 was 34.8 per 1,000, more than twice the national ...

I've spent over four decades in courtrooms watching an American tragedy continue to unfold. Children—some barely old enough to speak—face the traumas of abuse, neglect, removal from their natural ...

In the United States, more than 390,000 children are currently in foster care. Each year, between 19,000 and 30,000 youth “age out” of the system without permanent families or lifelong supports. The ...

The NAACP is demanding criminal investigations and the ouster of top county leaders over the death in foster care of a San Jose toddler earlier this month, adding to the growing chorus of calls for ...

The parents of two children in Northern Territory foster care have spoken out about their "heartbreaking" experience with the ...