On January 2, baby Rowan Foster is the first baby of 2026 — RMC's labor and delivery department reported Rowan arrived Friday ...

Luz Garcia and her husband have been fostering children since 2018. But nothing could have prepared her for the moment her son, 9-year-old Xeius, met his newborn foster baby brother, Benny— a bond ...

Sometimes the biggest life choices come from the smallest acts of love. That is what happened when a 9-year-old boy showed compassion toward a foster baby placed in his family’s home. His quiet acts ...

Videos that circulated on social media in June 2025 claimed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was removing undocumented children from their foster homes for deportation. One of the earliest ...

I've spent over four decades in courtrooms watching an American tragedy continue to unfold. Children—some barely old enough to speak—face the traumas of abuse, neglect, removal from their natural ...

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Hailey, a 15-year-old in Missouri’s foster care system, gave birth to her daughter in February after fearing for months that the state would remove her child. A few weeks after the birth, the two were ...

Katrina White remembers just how determined her parents were to see her, and all her siblings, go to college. That never happened. She lost her father when she was nine years older. Then, she lost her ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A bill that would change the circumstances for when a foster child may be removed from a foster home passed the house Wednesday. Adam Burkhammer HB 2027, which aims to reduce the ...

The chaperone assigned to monitor the teenager had worked a 40-hour shift before the Maryland teen’s death by suicide, according to an investigation.

RennerVation currently serves about 500 foster youth but has about 1,000 foster clients including the families. Services are ...