Crystal Garcia says she's been working since April to achieve legal guardianship status, and is hoping the kids will be ...

Ms. Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “No Way to Treat a Child.” In February 2023, Phoenix Castro was born in San Jose, Calif., suffering from neonatal ...

In the United States, many children enter the traditional foster care system—and find themselves living with strangers under an unfamiliar roof. Consider data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which ...

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 ...