Grandmothers relieve the foster care system by caring for large numbers of parentless children in New York City, but they need more than just subsidies.

Luis Torres has not been able to see his children for a long time. They’ve been removed to foster care for six months. Now when they were allowed to come home, Mr. Torres was ordered to move out.

Keeping foster kids with their parents can be difficult. Rules and regulations sometimes appear to be systematic oppression, here in the US and abroad.

Since a year of becoming a part of the contractual agreement between ACS and foster care agencies, the Family-to-Family strategy is yet to be implemented in NYC

All adoptive parents face different challenges raising their kids. Race, race relations and civil rights issues in transracial families can be a touchy issue, where the right answer isn’t always black or white.

Even critics of the reform agree that Russian child welfare system does need improvement. But the public is scared that social workers and police would be taking children into custody to punish parents for their political activities.

Since the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was enacted in 1974, increasingly it is immigrant families who are losing their children to foster care due to the traditional way of child-rearing.