LAWRENCE — Child welfare professionals work in a stressful environment. Seeing families at risk of having children removed from the home frequently results in occupational trauma, burnout and negative ...

Are child-welfare investigations traumatic for families? How should we weigh that trauma against learning if children are in danger and ensuring parents change their behavior? New York City’s ...

Readers discuss a guest essay about removing children from troubled homes. To the Editor: Re “To Protect Kids, We Need More Foster Care, Not Less,” by Naomi Schaefer Riley (Opinion guest essay, May 13 ...

(Photo courtesy of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families.) Deaths and near-fatalities among children in Washington’s child welfare system have slowed, but are still expected to hit a ...

Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Hannah McDowell receives funding from the ...

The case of a child who was killed by his mother shortly after being returned from foster care has shed a rare and needed ...

The number of known cases of abuse and neglect among children in North Carolina have declined over 30 years. But the official count of children dying from abuse or neglect has increased since 2018.

Most parents know the feeling—that quick flash of panic when a child falls, bumps a table, or wakes up with a bruise you don’t remember seeing the day before. For many families, it’s a passing worry.