New federal figures show that the number of U.S. children in foster care has dropped 8 percent in just one year, and more than 20 percent in the past decade. The drop, welcomed by child-welfare advocates, is due largely to a shift in the policies ...

A former Clark County child welfare administrator charges she was ordered to lie about the number of children at Child Haven to make it appear the county's Family Services Department was doing a better job of placing children into foster care.
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Country singer Jimmy Wayne can finally put his feet up. He arrived in Phoenix Sunday with a broken foot after walking approximately 1700 miles over the past seven months. A high school marching band and dozens of fans walked with Wayne down the home stretch ...

Authorities say a 7-year-old girl who was snatched from California as a toddler has been placed in a foster home after being found living with a palm-reading couple in Phoenix. Los Angeles County sheriff's Capt. Patrick Maxwell said Monday that Amber Nicklas is with a family ...

A girl abducted by three aunts from her California foster parents nearly seven years ago, when she was an infant, was found Wednesday living in Phoenix, authorities said. Detectives from the Phoenix Police Department's missing persons unit, the Los Angeles County Sheriff ...

A San Diego foster mother accused of hoarding thousands of toys donated for needy children has been convicted of grand theft. Jurors returned a guilty verdict Friday for 75-year-old Virginia Kelly, a former head of the Latino Foster Parents Association. The panel also found true an allegation that ...

An aging con man convicted of killing two young couples in Wisconsin and Ohio decades ago claims he also shot his foster son to death. In a jailhouse interview with The Associated Press, 77-year-old Edward W. Edwards says he lured Dannie Boy Edwards to a secluded cemetery near the family ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Loving care is key for helping socially deprived children catch up on their growth, a new study in Romanian children shows. Social deprivation can stunt children's growth, but kids can catch up if they're moved to a more nurturing environment, Dr. Dana E. Johnson of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and his colleagues ...

No single youngster can be the poster child for America's foster care system, with its mix of happy endings and heartache. Yet Tatiana Fowler's smile, as she embraces the woman who adopted her, gives a hint at the groundswell of change that is ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Behavioral tics such as head banging, hand flapping, and body rocking are more common in toddlers living in orphanages, but often disappear after children are placed in foster homes, a new Romanian study shows. The earlier the children were removed from the orphanage and the longer they lived with their foster family, the larger the reduction ...