Prosecutors say they won't proceed with a child abuse trial against Atlantic City’s superintendent of schools. That comes just weeks after her husband — the mayor of the seaside gambling ...

The boy was also charged with battery on a peace officer; a report alleges he punched one officer in the face several times.

In 1990 the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) was developed to assist working families who could not afford childcare. The argument was that parents needed to be working rather than ...

Former directors of state DFCS tell governor they “are deeply concerned that this crisis is accelerating and that additional ...

NPR revisits a series of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviews with a soft-spoken Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1961 ...

In a panicked bid to cover its failures, the Administration for Children’s Services then allegedly backdated its notes and ...

In 2025, new data show, the volume of child pornography online was likely larger than at any other point in history. A record ...

Bruno Valenzuela slapped a child with cerebral palsy at the boy's Port Jefferson Station home, prosecutors said.

On Nov, 21-22, 2025, Wakako Yamasaki and Eui Jung Kim, academic development specialists in the English Language Institute, ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has bowed to pressure from his own party and declined to seek a third term, citing the need to focus ...

Child neglect is the most common form of maltreatment, involving failure to provide basic needs or proper supervision, often ...

More than 9 million children — about 13% — are living in poverty in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.