Earlier this year, a Houston man was found guilty of multiple counts of child sexual abuse — after Child Protective Services had been called eight times. Those were eight opportunities to protect a ...

A child is brought to the emergency room with an injury. Was it caused by abuse? When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same ...

Parenting expectations are often unreasonably high—and so is the number of people who believe that kids can't handle anything on their own. Passersby too often see an unsupervised child and assume ...

A Fargo mother said she had no communication with her three children for more than a year after Mahnomen County child protection workers removed them from her care. In a new lawsuit, two Fargo sisters ...

CHARLESTON – A federal audit of West Virginia’s child welfare system during former Gov. Jim Justice’s final year in office found that 91% of 100 reviewed reports did not follow requirements for child ...

On a summer afternoon in 2023, Michelle Fraser got an unsettling call from her daughter: A “strange man” was milling about the yard of their house in Queens. Baffled, she found a voicemail from a ...

In October, Nyisha Ragsdale, the maternal aunt of four-year-old Jahmeik Modlin, filed a lawsuit against the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), claiming that the city could ...

“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 ...

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is considering installing a radical activist — who wants to abolish Child Protective Services — to lead the city’s welfare agency for children, The Post has learned.

Efforts to bolster child protective services in New Hampshire over the past decade didn’t do enough to save the life of 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, according to a lawsuit filed by the girl’s mother ...

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A bipartisan push in the legislature seeks to give state officials more oversight of families that exhibit higher risk of ...