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 ...

From In re Child of Cassie S., decided by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday, in an opinion by Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill: ...

[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 ...

Is a Washington law pitting child protection against parental rights? Some people tasked with caring for abused and neglected children believe it is, and say children are dying because of it. One of ...

Black children are twice as likely as white kids to be removed from their parents. For Native American kids, the disparities are even more stark. Layla Jackson never returned to her mother. The ...

CHILDREN are more than small, imperfect adults whose interests are to be subordinated to those of adults.Childhood is more ...