This news article describes how an Irish missionary, orphanage staff, and a 3-year-old child were released after being held captive for nearly a month following a gang abduction in Kenscoff, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

In this TIME op-ed, anti-trafficking advocate Ruchira Gupta warns that the Trump administration’s recent immigration enforcement framework is endangering already vulnerable children.

This article explores how New York lawmakers have approved a bill that would bring greater transparency to “hidden foster care,” a practice where child welfare agencies pressure parents to place their children with relatives or others outside the formal foster care system, often without court oversight or access to legal protections.

This news article explores how U.S. first Lady Melania Trump penned a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing the abduction of Ukrainian children amid the war, which President Trump then hand-delivered during their summit in Anchorage, Alaska.

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.