A plaintiff has settled his case against the county that placed him with his adoptive father, a former pediatrician for ...

A class-action child abuse settlement set to make major changes to Oregon’s foster care system must consider the needs of hundreds of foster youth who still live with their birth parents, a federal ...

POLK COUNTY, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - A South Dakota woman is suing the State of Iowa for allegedly placing her in a foster home with a convict who sexually assaulted her. Mikalla Starr Winkel, ...

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 ...

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — In May 2024, 18-year-old Mackenzi Felmlee died at a hospital after being found unresponsive in her foster home. A year later, her foster mother and foster grandmother are now ...

Kourtney Eutsey is escorted through the Fayette County Courthouse Friday for her preliminary hearing on homicide and abuse charges. The Fayette County foster parents charged in the death of 9-year-old ...

Federal oversight over Michigan's foster care and child welfare system began in 2008. The state of Michigan is trying to end federal oversight of its foster care system. The monitoring began in 2008 ...