The power of music and the power of politics met Tuesday, with a hip-hop mogul and one of the most prominent leaders in Congress joining their considerable forces to spotlight issues facing youth in America.
At a foster home on the outskirts of Beijing, 13 special-needs children are waiting to be adopted. Our crew walked in as they were waking up from their afternoon nap, with sleepy eyes and little yawns that quickly turned into smiles.
A Florida circuit judge Tuesday struck down a 31-year-old state law that prevents gays and lesbians from adopting children, allowing a North Miami man to adopt two half-brothers he and his partner have raised as foster children since 2004.
A father and stepmother were charged with withholding their 14-year-old daughter's food and water so drastically that she weighed only 48 pounds, authorities said
More than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect's ranch will be returned to their parents beginning Monday, Texas officials chastened by a state Supreme Court ruling said Friday
Leading child welfare groups Tuesday argue that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach when dealing with adoption by white families
Texas child welfare authorities are appealing a ruling in the polygamist sect case, arguing that the state was right to put more than 440 children in foster care
An 18-year-old who gave birth in state custody after she was incorrectly seized in a raid on a polygamist sect ranch says the state kept her in foster care in an effort to seize her baby.
The power of music and the power of politics met Tuesday, with a hip-hop mogul and one of the most prominent leaders in Congress joining their considerable forces to spotlight issues facing youth in America.
At a foster home on the outskirts of Beijing, 13 special-needs children are waiting to be adopted. Our crew walked in as they were waking up from their afternoon nap, with sleepy eyes and little yawns that quickly turned into smiles.
A Florida circuit judge Tuesday struck down a 31-year-old state law that prevents gays and lesbians from adopting children, allowing a North Miami man to adopt two half-brothers he and his partner have raised as foster children since 2004.
A father and stepmother were charged with withholding their 14-year-old daughter's food and water so drastically that she weighed only 48 pounds, authorities said
More than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect's ranch will be returned to their parents beginning Monday, Texas officials chastened by a state Supreme Court ruling said Friday
Leading child welfare groups Tuesday argue that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach when dealing with adoption by white families
Texas child welfare authorities are appealing a ruling in the polygamist sect case, arguing that the state was right to put more than 440 children in foster care
An 18-year-old who gave birth in state custody after she was incorrectly seized in a raid on a polygamist sect ranch says the state kept her in foster care in an effort to seize her baby.
Dr. Phil McGraw joined "Larry King Live" on Thursday where he talked about some of the stories in the news. He touched on topics ranging from the removal of children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sect to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the Austrian family affected by incest.
All of the more than 460 children and youths removed from a polygamist sect's ranch this month are now in foster homes, a Texas Child Protection Services representative said Friday.
A Texas appeals court on Thursday agreed to hear arguments that hundreds of children the state took from a polygamist compound should be allowed to see their mothers
The story of a boy born into captivity in the South American jungle has riveted people for more than a year in Colombia, striking a nerve in a country numbed by 40 years of political violence.
Preliminary DNA tests indicate a 3-year-old foster child is the son of a woman being held captive by leftist rebels, Colombian officials announced Friday.
Angie Harmon may be best known for playing tough-as-nail characters, but in real life, the former beauty queen has a big heart – and an appetite for some down-home cooking.
Authorities in Chad have charged nine French nationals with kidnapping after they attempted to fly out of Chad with more than 100 children the group claimed were orphans from Sudan.
Alex Smith was driving his parents' 2001 Mitsubishi Montero around his hometown of San Diego the other day when the subject turned to the most improved team in the NFC: His own.
I've made a lot of bad rules in the decade I've been a mom, from irrational threats ("No graham crackers in the house ever again if you eat them in the living room even one more time") to forbidding human nature ("You may not fight with your sister").
On Wednesday, March 14, 2007, we asked who you thought should get ownership of Pablo the dog. Here are some of your responses, some of which have been edited:
A search is under way for a mother and her boyfriend who are believed to be on the lam with her nine-month-old baby after a social worker was beaten to death.
A couple who kept their five children on a strict raw foods diet was cleared of aggravated manslaughter Monday for the death of their 6-month-old baby, but convicted of four counts of child neglect.
Louisiana officials working to rebuild families torn apart by Hurricane Katrina are being especially challenged in trying to locate some 500 foster children still unaccounted for by guardians.
The number of volunteers looking for 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde, who disappeared in Florida last weekend, is expected to swell Saturday as the search spreads south of her home to Little Manatee River State Park, a discouraged sheriff said.
Authorities and volunteers resumed a search for a missing 13-year-old girl at daybreak Thursday as a convicted sex offender who has been questioned in connection with the case goes to court.
A registered sex offender jailed on an assault charge was being questioned in the disappearance of a 13-year-old Florida girl missing since the weekend, the Hillsborough County sheriff said late Wednesday afternoon.
The North Carolina couple accused of kidnapping their children from foster care at gunpoint were taken into custody Wednesday in Grayson County, Virginia, authorities said.
Authorities searched Sunday for two North Carolina children abducted a day earlier at gunpoint from a foster home by their biological parents, law enforcement officials said.
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