Foster Care
How Child Protection Agencies Are Trying to Predict Which Parents Will Abuse Kids
America is about to find out what happens when you mix big data with so-called risk factors like race.
The Woman Who Parents Foster Kids When They're No Longer Kids
A recent court ruling in Texas found the state's foster care system to be so broken that it violated the constitutional rights of the children in it's care. When those children age out the system they often have few life skills and nowhere to go...
Tears Flow Over the Suspicious Death of 12-Year-Old Tiahleigh Palmer
On Saturday, Queensland police announced that a decomposed body had been identified as Tiahleigh. Sunday night saw 400 people attend her vigil.
British Columbia's Outdated Foster Care System Is Contributing to Homelessness
Once young people age out of BC's broken foster care system, they are offered no support and often end up living on the streets of Vancouver.
From Foster Homes to Prison: How It Feels to Spend Your Entire Life in State-Run Institutions
After more than 30 years in prison, I have mass incarceration sewn into my flesh and bones. I can't turn away from it or choose not to know it, and it leaves me with little or no capacity for hope.
Action Swingers and Lumpy and the Dumpers Warmly Welcome You to Total Fuck Off II
Because what's a good party without a little male nudity.
From Teenaged Prostitute to Sex Workers' Rights Advocate
Activist Bella Robinson feels victimized by laws intended to help people like her.
Welcome to the Sausage Castle, Home to Florida's Most Free-Spirited Freaks
How a band of American outcasts created a genuine alternative family for themselves.
Love, Serve, Surrender: An Alleged Pedophile's Perfect Scam
Hippie guru Jay Ram was hailed as a public hero for fostering, adopting, and caring for dozens of boys that had nowhere else to go. But years later, a new picture has emerged. Several of his sons have come forward to say that he preyed on them sexually...
Kicking Foster Children Out of Their Homes at 18 Is Stupid
I spoke to some people who fell victim to a UK law that seems – finally – to be changing.