When Child Protective Services and a police officer showed up at the home of former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, he assumed, as many people do, that this was an abuse of an otherwise ...

The Justice Department has stepped up enforcement with multiple arrests and prosecutions targeting large-scale government ...

Board members questioned how the alleged abuse of 16 kids went on without state intervention.

In 2001, University of Pennsylvania law professor Dorothy Roberts released a groundbreaking book, “Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare,” laying out the case that most children in the U.S.

Here are some ways to build relationships and to responsibly report on the system that pulls in some of the country’s most vulnerable people. In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, a boy heads up the stairs of ...

The government provides at least one means-tested, welfare-type program to roughly one out of every five Americans (unless you count Social Security, in which case the number goes up considerably). In ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Earlier this year, Kyeesha Lamb called the police on ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn greater attention to the plight of abused and neglected children. Maltreatment incidence is likely on the rise, given the combination of social isolation, increased ...

WHAT America needs now,” the President told the nation last week, “is not more welfare, but more ‘work-fare.’ ” On the wings of that Nixonian neologism, the President proposed the first fundamental ...

The welfare fraud in Minnesota seems to be a never-ending story. We’re learning that scammers bilked multiple programs intended to help low-income families, including Medicaid, food aid, housing ...