Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials are seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide with a view to deporting them or pursuing criminal cases against them or adult sponsors sheltering

In 2020, 4,831 children and youth—roughly 1% of all children in foster care—were reported missing or on runaway status. Further, a National Center for State Legislatures report in 2023 indicated that 1.5 million children (7% of all youth) run away each year, most often due to family conflicts, abuse or neglect. 

It was 3 a.m. when they got the call. Staff at the Altadena foster care facility had been monitoring the Eaton Fire since it sparked earlier that evening. But the growing flames looked to be moving in the opposite direction, and their location remained well outside the evacuation zone.

Panama, Uganda, Sri Lanka and Czech Republic among those newly committing to totally prohibit violence against under-18s.

Adam Crapser has become something of a cause celebre for what critics say is a flawed United States law that unfairly leaves tens of thousands of international adoptees in limbo without citizenship.

Former President Donald Trump's pledge to implement mass deportation if he's reelected has ignited fears of family separations. 

Standing beneath the foothills of the Estrella Mountains near the Gila River Indian Community, President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned, first-ever apology to survivors of Indian boarding schools today, calling the years between 1819 and 1969 shameful and “one of the most horrific chapters in American history.” 

Legislation now before Congress seeks better accounting of “hidden foster care” — a widespread but poorly regulated practice relied upon by child welfare agencies to shuffle kids out of their parents’ homes without court oversight. 

Legislation aimed at better protecting youth sent to residential treatment centers in California — a bill inspired by an Imprint and San Francisco Chronicle investigation — has been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. 

After months of languishing in an abusive boarding school in Jamaica — where boys said they were beaten, waterboarded, starved and whipped — Michigan teenager Elijah Goldman begged to come home.