Foster care

"I think she is challenging you to a dance off up ya get," one user joked.

The GOP lawmaker said that "children are in the greatest danger in America today because traditional family values are being destroyed."

"There needs to be a serious reforming when it comes to the entire adoption system," the TikToker said in the clip.

"I am willing to bet those kids will remember you fondly for the rest of their lives," a Redditor commented.

Evangelical Christians once were pioneers in international adoptions and foster care. A "tsunami" of mentally ill and violent children now derails the movement.

Tusaiwe Munkhondiya is the founder of non-profit organizations "Empowering Young Mothers" and "You Are Not Alone" in Malawi.

"I am blessed to have been adopted!" one online user said. "My mom is the best mom and I've never felt different."

"It's just a name on a birthday cake, but it says 'someone knows me,'" Jera Stewart, the owner of Jera's Heavenly Sweet told Newsweek.

For a range of reasons still being explored, the foster care system suffers from mishandling.

"This situation is tragic, and we must find a way to ensure something like this never happens again," Governor Laura Kelly said about Lofton's death.

The law authorizes taxpayer-funded foster care agencies in Tennessee to deny services to families who have different religious beliefs from an agency.

The University of Pennsylvania thought it had its 31st Rhodes Scholar, but a graduate's application didn't mesh with her actual life story.

Two Yakima sisters will receive a multimillion-dollar settlement after the state did not do safety checks on the foster home where they were abused.

When we see vulnerable children, we have a responsibility to act. The children arriving at our border have already suffered the severe trauma of fleeing their homes.

The Supreme Court sides with the Catholic foster care agency that refused to certify same sex couple in a case against the state of Philadelphia after it tried to limit relations with the agency.

The Supreme Court has the chance this month to protect religious freedom, religious minorities and foster families.

The American Rescue Plan can also rescue foster kids who just need to a little help to move forward with their lives.

Brittany Burcham has documented her life as an emergency foster parent to teens in Alabama, and has been praised for her comforting approach.

This month happens to be National Foster Care Awareness Month. In addition to promoting the many loving families who do give their best to the system, there is no better time to remind ourselves that foster care isn't a solution; it's a symptom of the problem.

The Whataburger Center was cited 239 times between 2016 and 2020 for violations in state minimum standards, according to a Texas Tribune report.

Acknowledging the overrepresentation of children of color in foster care is a good starting point, but it's not enough to reveal a problem without offering solutions.

The calls were made from the foster home where the 16-year-old lived before she was shot by police on April 20.

I have come home many times and told my wife about encounters where I'd met a troubled child and how I wished I could have helped them

Franklin County Children Services state the children, who are all under the age of 12, went missing on Wednesday night.

Katie and I get along really well, she is always there for me. There are things I thought I would never have help with—now I do.

Now more than ever, we need as many highly successful adoption and foster care providers caring for children as possible—providers like CSS. Yet Philadelphia wants to end all those benefits. How does that help kids?

I have fostered 13 children in the past three years and nine of them have been Caucasian, including Anthony who I have adopted.

The Bonura family, based in Spring, has taken in five siblings separated in foster care in the midst of the global pandemic.

A Supreme Court decision in 2018 found that the DCYF was liable for injuries to children after they were placed in foster homes, which led to an increase in settlements in 2019 from previous years, said spokeswoman Debra Johnson.

The story of a Sesame Street character's struggle with her mother's substance abuse is not age-appropriate, the Fox News contributor said.