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The United States bishops have called for an end to discrimination against religious providers of adoption and foster care services who believe that children need a mother and a father.

A coffee shop in Dallas, Texas, is giving young people who have aged out of the foster care system a place to learn life skills. 

A teenage boy in Charlotte, North Carolina, found his forever home in November after his parents abandoned him years earlier in Oklahoma.

An eight-year-old boy who has been adopted out of the foster care system has made it his mission in life to save old dogs who need a home.

Two cats in a foster home at the same time were reunited after spending seven months apart when someone decided to adopt both cats instead of one.

An Arizona man shelled out $2 million to help open a school for children in foster care, making it the second time he has donated a large sum of money to benefit kids in the foster care system.

A 75-year-old woman has been responsible for fostering more than 600 children over the past five decades in her home in Johnson County, Iowa.

A girl in Wesley Chapel, Florida, is helping make a difference in the lives of foster children living in her community. 

A family of four in northern Kentucky recently adopted three siblings to make sure they stayed together. 

The Trump HHS has proposed a rule that would end Obama-era regulations forcing faith-based adoption agencies to compromise their beliefs.

A father in Buffalo, New York, is being praised by his adopted son for his decision to adopt five young siblings at once.

An adoptive father in Buffalo, New York, is making a huge difference in the lives of five siblings.

The Jacksonville Humane Society is celebrating after it cleared out its animal shelter, giving every pet a foster home ahead of Hurricane Dorian.

Kansas Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) has issued a policy directing foster homes to recognize the “preferred” gender identity of foster children “if it differs from their sex assigned at birth.”

A Warsaw court has decided not to deport Russian Christian Denis Lisov who fled Sweden with his children after they were placed in a Muslim home.

Restaurant chain Wendy’s is going nationwide with a foundation program that helps to raise funds for adoptions of difficult-to-place foster children.

A Christian father and his three daughters are seeking asylum in Poland after he fled Sweden with them when they were placed in foster care with a Muslim family.

A 60-year-old single father who raised six adopted children over the past decade is about to adopt a seventh son and has no regrets about becoming a dad.

Three brothers have found their forever home on Monday after a family adopted them out of foster care so they could stay together.

Christmas came early for seven siblings after an Arkansas couple fought to adopt them out of the state’s foster care system.

The moment Ivey Zezulka discovered that she and her siblings would be adopted was documented in a simple, touching video.

“Entrusting children to so-called homosexual couples constitutes in the last analysis a moral abuse of children, the smallest and most defenseless,” said Bishop Athanasius Schneider in an interview with Italian media last week.

A judge has ordered a Christian child placed in a conservative Muslim household to be rehomed with her family, as it is revealed the local authority involved attempted to block journalists from exposing the story.

The parents of a five-year-old Christian girl forced to live with a fundamentalist Muslim family begged the council to allow her to stay with her grandmother as she became increasingly distressed.

Adam Winkler is speaking up for grandparents forced to choose between foster-parenting their grandson or keeping their gun rights.

Child Protective Services advocates and the commissioner that heads the agency think they have come up with one solution for the problems that are plaguing Texas. Their solution is to focus on prevention programs, including home visits.

“Last year, more than 100 children died in our Child Protective System. You can vote to end that,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott during his State of the State Address on Tuesday.

Governor Greg Abbott addressed members of the Texas House and Senate in his State of the State Address on Tuesday and laid out his emergency items, including banning sanctuary cities, reforming the embattled agency responsible for safeguarding children, calling for a Convention of States to address overreaches by the federal government, and ethics reform governing elected officials.

Representatives in the Texas House announced on Monday that they intend to make major changes to the agency charged with protecting abused and neglected children.

The mother of Naika Venant, a 14-year-old who streamed her suicide on Facebook Live, blames the Florida foster care system for her daughter’s death.

The First Lady of Texas, Cecilia Abbott, and the commissioner over the state’s child welfare system, asked faith partners in Texas to help the youth and their families in the child welfare system.

The federal judge overseeing a class action lawsuit against the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) has issued an order that finds that the agency has not been complying with her December 2015 order keeping the department from placing children in foster homes that lack 24-hour supervision. She opines that the state agency has continued to have children in these facilities for over a year.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) will be receiving some much-needed assistance with help for foster children.

Seven special needs children have been removed from a home and the adoptive caretakers have been arrested.

The State of Texas has filed objections to the special masters’ report in the class action lawsuit filed on behalf of children in the care of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).

The Texas foster care system is in a crisis. How to settle the crisis has been a question for lawmakers, child advocates, and others. Now, two masters appointed by a federal judge in a class action suit filed against the state agency have issued their recommendations in a formal report.