The Indiana Department of Child Services investigates nearly four out of five Black families for child maltreatment. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) As many as 40 employees of the Indiana ...

A 17-year-old Honduran boy was removed from a Pensacola foster home on Monday after Florida’s child protection agency alerted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE agents above are shown in a ...

“We’re Not Protecting Children. We’re Recycling Their Trauma.” That was the title of a recent opinion piece by policy researcher Mathangi Swaminathan on the education news website The74, explaining ...

[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 ...

In February 2021, residents of Racine learned that 17-year-old Shavale J. Powell was facing homicide charges in the death of his 1-month-old son. The child suffered blunt force trauma to the head, ...

URBANA — Three years ago, Department of Children and Family Services child-protection investigator Deidre Silas was found dead after being sent out on a welfare check at a home with six children in ...

The National Child Protection Task Force headed the effort, which located kids from ages 7 to 17 in Florida Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...