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Contractors in charge of handling foster care in Kansas have been investigated dozens of times during the past three years, in some cases leading to changes to protect children they serve.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Marne Harvich of Orange Park runs a Facebook group for Florida parents like herself who count on Medicaid as health insurance for their children. Though Harvich and her husband work, their income doesn’t cover the high cost of medical care their daughter on a ventilator requires.

"I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker."

"She is way too young to be walking this distance by herself," said the cops.

State actors are increasingly willing to seize children even with little evidence of child abuse.

MIAMI — A U.S.-born infant at the center of an international child-custody dispute may get a reprieve from a requirement that he be forcibly relocated to Haiti, the conflict-ridden nation of his mother’s birth.

It is perhaps for the first time in recent years that a female Dasara elephant has delivered a calf on the palace premises

Ezra Miller is the subject of a joint investigation between Vermont police and the state's Department for Children and Families after the embattled actor was suspected of keeping a mother and her three children at their farm.