Nine-year-old Isaac is an orphan from Colombia. He doesn't speak English and is in a strange, new country, living in a big house with a family he met about four weeks ago. Yet Isaac is grinning...
In its 54-year history, the Children's Home of Lubbock has finalized 750 adoptions, and will celebrate that milestone at 2 p.m. Saturday with an open invitation for adoption families to attend....
The love of a child is something that blesses many homes. So many couples automatically assume the birth of a child — and watching that child grow up into adulthood — is pretty much a...
Madison County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is looking for new volunteers for the next training class. These training sessions will be from...
One arm is in a sling, and white scar tissue has formed like cuffs around the 16-year-old's wrists from where he was bound. His face is scarred, arms gaunt and eyes dark and sullen....
At least 22,000 children across the country are waiting to be adopted by loving parents, but many Canadians are choosing to adopt overseas instead. "There are 76,000 children in child welfare...
For Lori and Daniel O'Brien of Brookfield, Wis., being able to attend Family Night at Lambeau Field with their seven children is a dream come true. That is only half the story for this family...
For many years in some circles, the Department of Children and Families and its predecessor, the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, were known as family-unfriendly....
Then one day she saw her, in the arms of a foster mother helping process her adoption by an American couple: a straight-haired toddler who appeared to be a stranger, except for...
There were times when Brittney Bergeron Himel thought the day would never come. With a biological mother fighting for her custody and a Family Court judge pushing for family reunification...
Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options, a 15-year-old nonprofit child-welfare agency based in South Florida, recently opened a satellite development office in Philadelphia. Its goal, noted...
A former official of New York City’s child welfare agency pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges including embezzlement, fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors have said he took part in schemes to...
Collier deputies arrest a woman accused of faking her pregnancy in order to get thousands of dollars through a local adoption agency. Stephanie Blume, 23, of Naples, was arrested Wednesday and...
Anyone who knows me, even for 15 minutes, knows I am a storyteller. There are many reasons for this, but that's not my best story. My best story is how I became the mother of four children...
The Department of Children and Families announced a record number of adoptions today — 3,674 — in the past fiscal year. DCF Secretary Bob Butterworth and Jim Kallinger, the state's chief...
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