"At first, I couldn’t even take in what she was saying. It felt like I was dropped into the middle of a bad movie." ...

A child is brought to the emergency room with an injury. Was it caused by abuse? When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same ...

The former United States Secretary of Transportation called the incident "the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my ...

“We’re Not Protecting Children. We’re Recycling Their Trauma.” That was the title of a recent opinion piece by policy researcher Mathangi Swaminathan on the education news website The74, explaining ...

Regardless of the cause, child maltreatment is not going away, and we need the help of these agencies.

The years of abuse suffered by little Thomas Valva — the autistic boy whose ex-NYPD cop dad and stepmom were convicted of murder in his freezing death — were kept under wraps thanks to the secretive ...

The central aim of any child protection system is in the name: protect children. But over the years, inquiries and media reports have shown fulfilling this goal has too often proved tragically elusive ...

Naomi Schaefer Riley and Martin Guggenheim debate the resolution, "Government-run child protective services should intervene more in the lives of children." For the affirmative is Riley, a senior ...

Prince Edward Island's child and youth advocate's report into the 2020 death of a nine-year-old girl provides 20 ...

New research led by Kingston University has found that even very modest uplifts to family finances could reduce children's chances of entering the child protection system. The study, based on data ...

Police charge woman with murder after the body of a preschooler was found in a Central Coast home on Saturday ...