A school can’t give a child special education services without parental approval. For children in foster care, this is often a barrier to an appropriate education.

Federal law requires states to protect drug-exposed babies after they leave the hospital. That effort is failing.

Many children sold as sex slaves were in the care of social services when they went missing. Aren't they supposed to keep kids safe?

It's National Foster Care Month. How can we make a National Foster Care Month matter? What should we be making a priority? Who should be making it a priority?

Every 15 minutes a baby is born substance-exposed. Efforts to combat the drug epidemic have focused on prevention, but what happens when this fails?

With parents unable to get clean, 50,000 newborns will enter state foster care systems this year. What happens next is Russian roulette.