child welfare
Drug-Testing Company Used in Child Custody Cases Investigated for Fraud
The DOJ investigated Averhealth, emails reviewed by VICE News show, after the company’s ex-lab director testified up to 30 percent of its results in Michigan were wrong.
Indigenous Nation Stopped BC Social Workers From Apprehending Child, 6, on Their Land
The BC Ministry of Children and Family Development is in talks with Indigenous and federal leaders. “Never again will Canada steal our future generations,” Gitxsan people said.
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."
Watch cops storm into an Arizona home to get an unvaccinated toddler to the doctor
The child’s mother was allegedly afraid to take him in because he was unvaccinated
Children’s Aid Fires Lawyer Who Called 14-Year-Old Girl a ‘Sexually Mature Young Woman
The lawyer’s statement prompted outrage among many legal experts and social workers who engage with vulnerable youth in Ontario.
Family of newborn seized in a Winnipeg hospital hopes to be reunited with the baby
A live video of the government apprehension of the infant sparked outrage toward the practice that disproportionately targets Indigenous children
Video shows officials seizing newborn from mother in Winnipeg hospital
The apprehension was live-streamed by a relative of the First Nations woman. More than 90 percent of children apprehended in Manitoba are Indigenous.
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.
The VICE Morning Bulletin
Foreign governments said to use Trump hotels to "curry favor," California couple charged with holding 13 children captive in horrific conditions, Trump reportedly scorned black members of Congress, and more.
Foster care system "failed" child refugee
Abdoulkadir Abdi, who grew up in government care, could be deported because Nova Scotia officials never applied for his citizenship
This deported father has to watch his kids grow up on YouTube
From Mexico, a deported father watches his kids grow up in the U.S on Youtube