foster care

A pair of Nebraska nurses who married after meeting in their hospital’s NICU added another member to their family when they adopted a premature infant they had cared for.

A Florida mother has been jailed for allegedly abusing her baby, after attempting to sell her to a concerned stranger for $500 and abandoning her.

A 5-year-old Ohio boy has been found deceased after a statewide manhunt for him and his foster mother, who is accused of kidnapping the child and later leading police to his body.

An infant was surrendered to Alabama’s first Safe Haven Baby Box, just days after installation, WAFF48 reported on Wednesday.

Less than one in 10 foster kids who go to college will obtain their bachelor’s degree, but that didn’t stop 25-year-old Rona Lin Frank of Texas from beating the odds.

A Kentucky household will celebrate their ninth Christmas as a family of three after the father, a school principal, adopted a troubled student.

An Oklahoma nursing facility worker was “shocked” to discover a dirty, starving little girl hiding in an elderly resident’s room one day.

A jury awarded millions of dollars in damages to an eight-year-old New Mexico girl who was sexually assaulted numerous times while in foster care.

Democrat North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bipartisan bill on Friday that allows couples to foster a child or siblings even if their household exceeds the maximum child limit.

What was supposed to be just a temporary, overnight visit turned into a forever home for five-year-old Cece Moore.

Labour-run Leeds City Council vowed not to put a child in the care of a paedophile again after a girl was abused by a convicted molester.

An illegal alien is accused of sexually abusing a young girl in the custody of foster care parents in Beverly Hills, Texas. 

An extraordinary Florida woman who has been fostering and adopting children for several years was blessed to see her family grow even bigger last week.

McMaster called the ACLU’s lawsuit a “shortsighted attack against every South Carolinian’s constitutionally-protected religious liberty.”

Biden’s deputies are pressuring state child welfare agencies to “affirm” abandoned or homeless kids who declare an “LGBT” identity.

Former first lady Melania Trump on Friday announced her latest initiative to help America’s children, an extension of her Be Best efforts while in the White House, explaining she has been “laying the groundwork” for a project focusing on children in the foster care system.

Children in need will soon have a special place to shop at no charge thanks to an adoptive family in Glennville, Georgia.

A family in Abilene, Texas, recently adopted three siblings out of foster care even though they already had three children of their own to love.

HHS announced the rescission of waivers to faith-based foster and adoption agencies, which allow them to operate according to their beliefs.

A 13-year-old girl is working hard to make foster children’s Christmas a special one this year, WXII reported Thursday.

Saturday was National Adoption Day and several children found their permanent families the day prior in Independence, Missouri, Fox 4 KC reported.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is pushing back against critics of her response to an Instagram post that said, “Abortion is wrong.” Biles recently asked for her Instagram followers to post their unpopular opinions. One such follower responded by saying, “Abortion

A Florida teenager who recently aged out of the foster care system got adopted by her former caseworker.

The family of Ma’Khia Bryant, the teenager a policeman shot and killed Tuesday in Ohio, is reportedly considering taking legal action.

When Pamela Willis saw a Facebook post in 2019 about seven siblings who needed a home, she had no idea her and her husband’s lives were about to change.

A foster family says they have been evicted from their home by a local Washington-based nonprofit to make room for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) flooding across the United States-Mexico border. 

A couple who have been taking in troubled teens for the past seven years have been told they must move to make room for the illegal aliens.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) said Wednesday 150 missing children from the state were recovered during a months-long collaborative operation.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) administration announced Tuesday it would create a commission to study “systemic racism” in foster care.

Hundreds of bags filled with essential goods were loaded out of a U-Haul truck by volunteers to give to abused and neglected kids in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A family in Toms River, New Jersey, has opened their house to six orphaned siblings to keep them together.

Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson Pérez has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Catholic Church’s constitutional right to run foster care services in accord with its teaching on marriage.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case about Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia providing foster care services while holding to their beliefs.

A teenager in Manchester, New Hampshire, is using her senior project to let kids in foster care know they are loved.

A couple in Texas took a leap of faith to grow their family, adopting five siblings separated in the foster care system.

Trump issued an executive order that seeks to reduce the need for vulnerable children to be placed in foster care and encourages permanent adoptions.