In a House divided, Republicans and Democrats have found surprising common ground: Reforming the nation’s sprawling child welfare system. The Protecting America’s Children by Strengthening Families ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eliza Anderson, Deseret News The New York child welfare system is at the heart of a heated discussion about the harms of removing ...

Here are some ways to build relationships and to responsibly report on the system that pulls in some of the country’s most vulnerable people. In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, a boy heads up the stairs of ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. On the surface, the term “child welfare system” sounds ...

When covering the complicated, often opaque web known as the child welfare system, it can be easy to forget the first word of that phrase: child. It’s imperative that we don’t. Reporters should center ...

As Gov. Patrick Morrisey pledged his administration will be more open about the challenges of West Virginia’s child welfare system, people who watch the system closely are hoping for the best. Shiloh ...

The U.S. welfare system is broken, and the Minnesota scandal is a blaring warning to that reality. The failure of political leaders on many fronts bears some of the blame. But the main culprit is the ...