Foster Care
How the Sovereign Citizen Movement Convinces Desperate Parents to Ignore Laws
Some sovereigns are tax protesters. Others peddle get-out-of-debt hacks. But a handful of new gurus are trying to expose Child Protective Services.
The State Separated Him From His Mother Aged 8 Months. It Took 26 Years to Learn the Truth.
Michal Dord was “one in thousands” of Roma newborns separated from their parents in the Czech Republic, the last EU country to institutionalise babies rather than place them in foster care.
The Residential School System Didn’t End—It Just Became Foster Care
“‘Social worker’ are two of the most horrifying words in the English language for Indigenous people.”
First All-Indigenous Modelling Agency Wants to Fix a ‘Messed-Up’ Industry
Supernaturals is likely the first agency with plans to bring in elders to support the models—and to be models themselves.
Dangerous Restraints Were Routine at This Youth Home. Then a Black Teen Died.
A VICE News investigation revealed a lack of appropriate training by the large for-profit company that runs several facilities for teens.
Coronavirus Is Forcing Parents of Kids in Foster Care to Go Months Without Visits
“We were working on a healthy balance for our life,” Heather Osborne said. “And then all of a sudden, it's taken away from us.”
The Trump Administration Has Accepted Zero Refugees This Month
The pause in resettlements may be due to President Trump not having signed off on the refugee ceiling for the new fiscal year.
How to Take on America's Screwed-Up Foster Care System and Win
"I didn't know anything like what happened could happen to a new mother."
This Cookery School for Former Foster Care Kids Teaches More Than Just Kitchen Skills
Every year, 11,000 teenagers leave foster care in Britain. Kitchen Kick Start aims to teach them basic cooking and food budgeting techniques—two vital skills for independent living.
Canadian child protection agencies say they won't treat weed differently now that it’s legal
Officials say they evaluate a parent's capacity to care for a child and drug use is one factor.
Failing to protect children
Report slams Ontario’s child welfare system for failing to prevent 12 deaths, eight of them Indigenous.
States aren't giving foster kids the psychiatric drugs they need, government report finds
Vulnerable kids in foster care were taking too many — or too few — psychiatric drugs when the systems in charge of their welfare weren’t paying attention.