The image of ICE detaining five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos last month focused attention on an underappreciated fact.

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 ...

A child welfare worker is often the first person to respond to a child in need and among the last people to handle their case before they’re reunified with parents or placed in a loving, permanent ...

LOUISVILLE — When I began reporting on child welfare, I brought with me the baggage that plagues all humans: misconceptions and blind spots about a system that I had never lived through. I had been ...

Virginia needs to do more to protect vulnerable children from abuse and neglect, but the commonwealth may have a plan to make significant progress in dealing with this longstanding, difficult problem.