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Child welfare
May 06, 2020
Foreign adoptions by US families drop by more than a quarter
The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents fell by more than one-quarter last year, extending a 15-year decline, ...
May 01, 2020
NCAA faces lawsuit over violence against women at colleges
The NCAA is facing a federal lawsuit accusing the organization of failing to address gender-based violence by male athletes ...
April 20, 2020
NGOs urge UN to blacklist US, Russia for children's deaths
A coalition of 13 human rights and humanitarian organizations urged U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to put the U.S.
April 18, 2020
With no school, calls drop but child abuse hasn't amid virus
With schools closed and teachers unable to report suspected cases of abuse and neglect, child welfare agencies have lost some ...
April 14, 2020
Americans stuck in Africa trying to bring adopted kids home
Stranded in Nigeria for months, a Colorado couple had a rare chance to catch an evacuation flight to the U.S. recently during ...
April 08, 2020
Saudi Arabia halts parental visitation rulings to curb virus
The Saudi king suspended final rulings and judicial orders on visitation rights of children of separated parents in the ...
April 07, 2020
Split families make pacts, duel over custody amid virus
As the country hunkered down to fend off the coronavirus, Carolina McAuley expected her middle school-age kids would continue ...
March 30, 2020
Ex-Blackfeet chairman gets 10 months prison in fraud case
A former Blackfeet Nation chairman who defrauded a tribal Head Start early education program through an overtime pay scheme ...
March 28, 2020
Coronavirus roils every segment of US child welfare system
Child welfare agencies across the U.S., often beleaguered in the best of times, are scrambling to confront new challenges ...
March 26, 2020
US couple, adopted daughter, caught in India virus lockdown
A Georgia couple who traveled to India to adopt a child have had to delay bringing their new daughter back to the United ...
March 14, 2020
Q&A: New travel ban shakes up airlines, passengers
Airlines and travelers are still sorting out the new travel ban that President Donald Trump announced late Wednesday that ...
March 12, 2020
More children face immigration judges through video screens
Seven children stood shoulder-to-shoulder in a Texas immigration facility. Their image was beamed 1,000 miles away to ...
March 11, 2020
Mother sues hospital over drug test that led to abuse probe
A mother sued a Pittsburgh hospital Wednesday, saying it collected and tested her urine for drugs without her consent while ...
March 09, 2020
Women fill streets of world's cities with call for justice
Women filled the streets of the world's largest cities Sunday to protest gender violence and inequality on International ...
March 08, 2020
Scores detained at women's rally in Kyrgyzstan
Police in the capital of Kyrgyzstan have detained about 60 people after an unauthorized rally to mark International Women's ...
March 05, 2020
Panel chosen to represent victims in Boy Scouts bankruptcy
A lawyer for the Boy Scouts of America apologized to victims of sexual abuse by scout leaders Wednesday before the selection ...
February 27, 2020
Review: Author Anne Kim writes about America's `lost youth'
"Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection,” The New Press, by Anne Kim In 2017, the Social Science ...
February 25, 2020
`Tool Box Killer' who preyed on teenagers dies in California
Roy Lewis Norris one of the “Tool Box Killers” who preyed on teenage girls in Southern California more than 40 years ago has ...
February 25, 2020
Supreme Court rules for Italian dad in custody case
The Supreme Court is resolving an international child custody dispute in favor of the girl's Italian father over her American ...
February 25, 2020
Justices to hear Philly dispute over same-sex foster parents
The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a dispute over a Philadelphia Catholic agency that won't place foster children ...
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