On billboards, online and in newspapers, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson sums up his life story: “Foster care to ...

Seven former foster youth are suing a former pediatrician for sex abuse and a California county for covering it up.

Georgia lawmakers have struck a bipartisan deal to fill the state child welfare agency’s budget hole, following months of scrutiny and a looming deficit that compromised critical social services. Last ...

Los Angeles County may be on the verge of settling a lawsuit brought by the family of Gabriel Fernandez, the 8-year-old Palmdale boy who was beat to death by his mother and her boyfriend in 2013.