Human trafficking - American Style: Straight from the Courts to Nations Across the Globe

Human trafficking - American Style: Straight from the Courts to Nations Across the Globe:

Have sexually abused kids become proven assets for the family courts to traffic into sexual slavery in foreign lands? Why do courts give sexually assaulted children to their abusers in 85% of the cases while placing parents who dare to report abuse on monitored visitations with their own children?   Concerned parents want to know.

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Huckabee Set to Interview Justina Pelletier

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Huckabee Set to Interview Justina Pelletier | Fox News Insider:

It was a heartbreaking story that was finally resolved last week after a teenager was taken from her family and placed in Massachusetts state custody amid a bitter dispute over her medical condition. Now 16, Justina Pelletier has been reunited with her family and will speak out in her first TV interview, this Saturday with Mike Huckabee.

S.D. tribes look to establish foster care services on reservations

S.D. tribes look to establish foster care services on reservations:

Five South Dakota tribes have asked the federal government for financial assistance to help operate their own foster care services.

The federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), passed by Congress in 1978, sought to keep American Indian foster children with American Indian families. Yet more than 35 years later, 80 percent of tribal children are still showing up in white foster homes in South Dakota.

20 Random Foster Care facts

20 Random Foster Care facts:

What do you know about foster care?

I was a foster child. I aged out after floating through more than 30 homes. I never got adopted. I saw the system in some pretty bad ways. 

The Perils of Adopting From Foster Care...Adoption Gone Wrong

The Perils of Adopting From Foster Care...Adoption Gone Wrong:

Adopter Beware

So, you want to adopt from foster care. Kudos to you. Adopting from foster care can be a wonderful thing.
It can also be an event that will scar you for the rest of you life.

Sick Teen Releases Facebook Video After Hospital Puts Him In Foster Care, Takes Him Away From Mother

Sick Teen Releases Facebook Video After Hospital Puts Him In Foster Care, Takes Him Away From Mother:

After the hospital took him away from his mother and placed him into foster care, 16-year-old Isaiah Rider videotaped himself expressing his unnerve and confusion as to why he isn’t allowed to see her. The hospital claimed his mother, Michelle Rider, worsened the symptoms of her son, who is diagnosed with neurofibromatosis, a painful condition that causes tumors to grow on his nerves.

Agencies to prevent child abuse take fire for failings

Agencies to prevent child abuse take fire for failings - WFSB 3 Connecticut:

(RNN) - Thousands of American children are trapped in abusive homes and foster homes. State departments devoted to the protection of children in abusive situations, often stretched to the limits of their resources, attempt to see to the well-being of those children.