foster children
Major case testing LGBT, religious rights goes before Supreme Court
WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court, with its newly expanded conservative majority, is set on Wednesday to hear a dispute over the city of Philadelphia’s refusal to place children for...
How I went from troubled foster kid to scholar at Yale and Cambridge
I remember being in a long white hallway with my mother. I was sitting on a bench next to her, drinking chocolate milk as my 3-year-old legs dangled above the...
Michigan man secretly recorded raping child by wife pleads guilty
A former foster parent in Michigan whose wife secretly recorded him sexually assaulting a child has pleaded guilty to rape, according to a report. Mark Andrew Sorenson, 61, will be...
Atlanta woman admits to killing 3-year-old for eating cupcake
LaShirley Morris pleaded guilty in the death of KeJuan Mason, who was found badly battered and bruised in a “roach-infested” house in southwest Atlanta.
This mom has donated about 94 gallons of her own breast milk
A Virginia Beach mom has donated about 12,000 ounces — or 94 gallons — of her own breast milk to 28 babies over the last year and a half, a...
Nightmare on 'Sesame Street': talking 'social relevance' way too far
Who among us didn’t grow up with Big Bird, Elmo and the whole gang teaching us how to navigate our emotions and the wider world? “Sesame Street” has been instrumental...
O is for opioids: 'Sesame Street' to tackle addiction crisis
"Sesame Street" is tackling the opioid crisis with the help of Karli, a muppet who recently revealed her mother is battling an addiction to the deadly drugs. The bright green,...
Migrant kids separated at border faced abuse in foster homes
SANTA ANA, Calif. — After local Guatemalan officials burned down an environmental activist’s home, he decided to leave his village behind and flee to the United States, hoping he’d be...
Teen population spikes over 200 percent at troubled foster care center
The number of kids in a scandal-plagued foster care center has ballooned by over 200 percent as the city’s jail population has decreased, officials revealed at a hearing Tuesday. "There’s...
Sesame Street's newest Muppet lives in foster care
Sesame Street introduced a new character on Monday named Karli — who is described as a "young Muppet in foster care." The debut was part of a new initiative being...
60-year-old single dad on raising 7 adopted kids: 'Love happens'
Joe Toles can be forgiven for wanting to take life a little easier: Now 60, the Queens bachelor spent the past decade raising six sons he adopted on his own....
Foster family charged with abusing, starving 3 young kids
A Pennsylvania foster family beat and starved three young children over a period of six years, even staging a videotaped fight between two of the children in an effort to...
City invests $6 million in search for boy forced into foster care nine years ago
The city has agreed to set aside $6 million for a Staten Island boy who vanished nearly nine years ago after being ripped away from his relatives and thrust into...
Meet the real-life inspirations behind the film 'Instant Family'
In May 2015, Aleisha Braide-Bryant and her husband Anthony Bryant went from having just one child living under their roof — her biological teenage son, Mekhi — to six. As...
Police believe abducted 4-year-old taken to Mexico
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Authorities have canceled an Amber Alert issued in California after police say they believe the non-custodial mother of a 4-year-old Vancouver, Washington, girl took her into Mexico....
Foster parents accused of abusing kids, forcing child to put dirty diaper in mouth
Officials in Indiana have leveled charges against two adults accused of abusing children in their care. The allegations against Timothy, 59, and Diane Combs, 55, came to light after a...
Girl sobs after finding out she's being adopted on her birthday
A little girl got the best birthday gift when she found out she was going to be adopted, and her reaction to the news has gone viral. Paige Zezulka shared...
NYC's foster kids need the same support as migrant children
Ever since news broke of the children separated from their parents at the US border, Big Apple residents have rallied around the kids. Social-service agencies housing the separated children have...
Alyssa Milano offers to foster migrant children brought to NYC
Actress Alyssa Milano wants to take in one of the hundreds of immigrant children housed in foster care facilities in Harlem, who were torn from their parents under President Trump’s...
Teen who ran away from foster care ripped apart by crocodile
A teenager who ran away from foster care only to be found dead in a mangrove swamp in Western Australia’s Kimberley region five years ago was killed by a crocodile,...