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 ...

The number of impoverished Rhode Island children removed from their homes in 2023 was 34.8 per 1,000, more than twice the national average of 16.3, according to an analysis by the National Coalition ...

Nancy Cordes is CBS News' chief White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Cordes has won numerous awards for her reporting, including multiple Emmys, Edward R. Murrow awards, and an Alfred I ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - It’s been just over a year since the hardest day of Yani Molina’s life. On March 27, 2024, Yani got a phone call from the Brunswick County Department of Social Services. Her ...

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 ...

Dec. 27—Some child advocates and foster care providers wonder if a new program designed to get hard-to-place children into foster homes will make as much of a difference as state officials claim. The ...

Four months after a three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals removed federal Judge Janis Jack from a major, yearslong case against Texas’ foster care system and vacated her latest ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A federal judge who, for more than a decade, presided in the legal fight surrounding Texas foster care will be removed from the case, after a divided appeals court declined to ...

Amy can point out 19 houses where she grew up in her Mississippi hometown. That tally doesn’t include the places in other cities and states where child welfare workers took her to live. Driving around ...