Parenting expectations are often unreasonably high—and so is the number of people who believe that kids can't handle anything on their own. Passersby too often see an unsupervised child and assume ...

A child is brought to the emergency room with an injury. Was it caused by abuse? When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same ...

Jessica Pryce is a former child protective services caseworker and now a faculty member of Florida State University’s College of Social Work. In her book “Broken: Transforming Child Protective ...

“We’re Not Protecting Children. We’re Recycling Their Trauma.” That was the title of a recent opinion piece by policy researcher Mathangi Swaminathan on the education news website The74, explaining ...

Scattered clothes, alcoholic beverage containers, drug paraphernalia and children’s toys covered the floor and furniture in the darkened living room as child protective services workers walked inside.

When a preschool teacher in Georgia reports a colleague for mistreating children and gets fired for it, parents are left ...

A view of the Pennsylvania state Capitol building from State Street in Harrisburg. (Tim Lambert/Pennsylvania Capital-Star). State lawmakers are considering changing the legal definitions of child ...

The Maryland Department of Human Services is investigating Caroline County Child Protective Services after staff failed to respond this summer to a Federalsburg home where state troopers found two ...