Michelle Newcomb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Two state lawmakers are proposing a bill to remedy gaps they see in the statewide system for responding to allegations of ...

Erica Russ has prior experience working in child protection and have previously undertaken other state government funded research related to child protection. She is a member of the Australian ...

In her recent Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver describes the situation of a young boy whose father dies before he is born. His mother struggles with addiction, but ...

Politics Minnesota’s child protection system needs fixes. Legislators are starting with these changes. Measures approved this session laid the groundwork for long-term changes to Minnesota’s child ...

[In state’s child protection statute and/or where “abuse and neglect” and/or “best interests of the child” are defined, add] A parent has the fundamental right to direct the care and upbringing of the ...

Black children are twice as likely as white kids to be removed from their parents. For Native American kids, the disparities are even more stark. Layla Jackson never returned to her mother. The ...

The government has acknowledged there were "unacceptable delays" to improving the child protection system after Malachi Subecz's death. The Coroner has released a damning report into the five-year-old ...