Nearly one in four New York City foster youth is prescribed psychotropic medication, raising concerns about oversight and overmedication.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - On April 9, the jury reached a guilty verdict on all charges against Michael Lane Hadden. He is now convicted of molesting three foster children who were in his care. He will ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaii’s foster care system was on the hot seat at the State Capitol in the wake of deadly child abuse cases and an audit from a year ago pointing out problems.

Since the city established Community Umbrella Agencies, or CUAs, they've been sued nearly 70 times for allowing kids in their ...

A Missouri foster mother has been charged with child abuse and endangerment as authorities investigate whether she traded an adopted daughter to someone in Texas for a monkey and mistreated other ...

A Missouri woman is accused of child abuse in Lincoln County. Brenda Deutsch, of Winfield, is charged with felony counts of ...

April is Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month in Stephens County, the state of Texas and the United States, and ...

Almost 400 children have been placed in care in Derby because of being “at risk of abuse or neglect”. Foster caring couple ...

Nearly a quarter of New York City foster youth is placed on psychiatric medications. That's still better than most cities' ...

A court in Pécs has ordered a Finnish couple suspected of maltreating an adopted adolescent to come under police supervision, according to a report by state news wire MTI. The family came to the ...

OGDEN — A former day care employee accused of using his workplace to repeatedly abuse young children was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for aggravated sexual abuse and child exploitation.

ROANOKE, Va. – The foster care crisis impacts thousands of children across Virginia. Children are removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect, through no fault of their own. The lack of ...