Project summary: The Youth FORWARD (Youth Functioning and Organizational Success for West African Regional Development) aims to increase interagency collaboration to scale up research capabilities and partnerships, and increase me

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The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of the published research addressing the challenges and strengths of Latino grandparents raising grandchildren in the United States. 

This study examines signs of reactive attachment disorder and disinhibited social engagement disorder at age 12 years in 111 children who were abandoned at or shortly after birth and subsequently randomized to care as usual or to high-quality foster care, as well as in 50 comparison children who were never institutionalized. 

The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) is inviting submissions for the 2017 Biennial Meeting to be held April 6 - 8, 2017 at the Austin Convention Center and the Hilton Austin Hotel in Austin, Texas, USA. 

This article explores sexuality education and sexual healthcare for female adolescents in foster care with ID/DD and recommends practice guidelines to support and prepare their emergent sexual development.

Girl's death is a stark demonstration of Texas's foster care shortage.

Governor, First Lady talk about raising nine kids, and overhauling state foster care system

Parents' drug abuse often lead children down a path of abuse, neglect, and abandonment.

A camp designed to help youths who have been through the foster care system cope with grief and connect with others who have lost their birth families.