“We’re Not Protecting Children. We’re Recycling Their Trauma.” That was the title of a recent opinion piece by policy researcher Mathangi Swaminathan on the education news website The74, explaining ...

Scattered clothes, alcoholic beverage containers, drug paraphernalia and children’s toys covered the floor and furniture in the darkened living room as child protective services workers walked inside.

Parenting expectations are often unreasonably high—and so is the number of people who believe that kids can't handle anything on their own. Passersby too often see an unsupervised child and assume ...

This article compares Child Protection Services (CPS) investigators to umpires, emphasizing that they should focus solely on facts and law, not emotions or biases. Investigators must avoid ...

When children are taken out of a home, few people support the birth parents. Nikki Sanchez is uniquely qualified to do that.

In a small, makeshift room in a refugee camp in Erbil, home to more than 8,500 refugees, 12-year-old Dîlan* sits quietly, lost in thought. He often keeps to himself, still carrying the pain of being ...

The Center for Child Protection cut the ribbon on its third site on Wednesday morning, marking what it said was a "major step ...