Michelle Newcomb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Erica Russ has prior experience working in child protection and have previously undertaken other state government funded research related to child protection. She is a member of the Australian ...

Gov. Tim Walz said after the report that he would propose additional dollars to help counties hire child welfare workers. However, he shifted his funding focus this year to modernizing the clunky ...

In her recent Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver describes the situation of a young boy whose father dies before he is born. His mother struggles with addiction, but ...

As Minnesota considers child protection reforms, should responsibility fall to state or counties? A Star Tribune series exposed failings in the county-run child protection system, and a legislative ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For decades, researchers have pointed out that the child welfare system is riddled ...

Val Benavidez, Texas Freedom Network executive director, and other LGBTQ leaders speak outside the Travis County, Tex., courthouse on March 2 in Austin. (Erich Schlegel/AP) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ...

[In state’s child protection statute and/or where “abuse and neglect” and/or “best interests of the child” are defined, add] A parent has the fundamental right to direct the care and upbringing of the ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — In December 2016, law enforcement agents seized computers and hard drives from the home of Tay Christopher Cooper, a retired high school history teacher, in Carlsbad, California. On ...

The war in Ukraine has been devastating for the country’s children, particularly those in the most vulnerable situations, including children without parental care, children with disabilities, children ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday marked this year’s Children’s Day with a call for nationwide community involvement in child protection. He unveiled a new public awareness initiative titled:“See ...