As Georgia students soon head back to the classroom, a new law requires schools to take no more than three business days to ...

Fifteen years ago, Nora McCarthy launched a unique publishing project to give child welfare-involved parents an opportunity to see their often-overlooked perspectives in print, through a magazine ...

All 50 states have opted in to the ACF initiative, which has a goal of increasing the ratio of foster homes to children in ...

Mississippi has expanded the list of crimes for which children as young as 13 must be prosecuted as adults and sent to adult ...

The new Georgia Foster Care Scholarship offers a maximum of $30,000 per year for college, starting as early as the coming ...

Bethany Christian Services will now require staff and prospective caregivers to disavow gay marriage and transgender rights.

Aiming to steer young people away from deeper involvement in the criminal justice system, a law enacted in California last ...

Long before we had child welfare or juvenile justice agencies as we know them today, the state was already punishing ...

Latagia Tyronce’s two children were playing and one, a toddler, was burned by a blow-dryer. Despite the support of the children’s grandmother, and the compelling evidence that this was an accident, ...

Brittany and Josh Patterson of Georgia with their four children, including Soren, left, who drew police attention after walking from home to a store at age 10. Provided photo. Brittany Patterson ...