According to a new lawsuit, NYC's child protection agency almost never obtained warrants when it searched over 50,000 family homes during abuse and neglect investigations.
A recent Pew survey says parents are "very involved in their young adult children's lives," but one might quibble with the definition of "very involved."
Teresa and Jeff Williams had their son, JJ, at home without medical help. They didn't know it would be nearly impossible to get legal documents for him.
Banning people under age 16 from accessing social media without parental consent "is a breathtakingly blunt instrument" for reducing potential harms, the judge writes.
A new white paper from the Canadian Pediatric Society recommends more unstructured play time for kids.
Kids were jailed for minor offenses, as detailed in The Kids of Rutherford County podcast.
The N.H. Supreme Court reversed the order.
A new lawsuit is challenging a Utah law that requires age verification to use social media and forces minors to get their parents permission first.
"The fear of liability is ruining modern childhood," says one mom.
The father had an earlier history of sexually assaulting children.
And some good news, after all.
His mom is rejecting the prosecutors' absurdly strict probation rules.
According to an analysis from the Associated Press, 50,000 children in 22 states were still missing from schools in fall 2022.
An investigation from ProPublica shows that one Knoxville-area facility is putting kids in solitary but skirting scrutiny by classifying the seclusion as "voluntary."
"People understand that these child abuse pediatricians have unlimited power," says Aaron Rapier, an attorney for the Kruegers.
Students in four Oklahoma school districts are also required to wear their school ID on a lanyard and sit on their own team's side.
Children held in the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center are routinely subjected to solitary confinement, inadequate meals, and filthy cells, according to legal documents.
According to a new lawsuit, New Jersey has handed over leftover blood from newborn genetic testing to law enforcement and sold it to third parties.
A new study shows the pervasiveness of helicopter parenting.
Across the country, ghoulish cities have outlawed teenage trick-or-treaters.
According to legal documents, children have been forced to sleep on the floor of offices and gymnasiums, with limited access to bathrooms and showers.
School officials in three states are effectively immune from lawsuits over excessive corporal punishment. A Louisiana mother is asking the Supreme Court to step in.
These kinds of poisonings are rare to nonexistent.
After a divided ruling, laws limiting such treatments in Tennessee and Kentucky will go into force.
More than 1 in 3 Florida foster kids over 13 is taking psychotropic medications, but the state often doesn't follow rules requiring it to keep records of prescriptions.
A Republican, a Communist, and a Catholic conservative walk onto a movie set...
"Doesn't matter," says the officer. "She's still making porn."
The district is still censoring the Gadsden flag patch as well as Second Amendment advocacy, according to FIRE.
This could be just the tip of the (m)iceberg.
The 12-year-old boy kicked out of class for sporting a Gadsden flag patch is back in school.
"This is literally a playground that's for 2- to 5-year-olds," says former preschool teacher Katie Courtney.
Horrible things are happening to vulnerable people, but we cannot help them by sending groups of vigilantes or law enforcement officers to hunt them.
A divided panel concludes the plaintiffs are unlikely to prevail on the merits and pledges to expedite the appeal.
"Nobody is abducting 1- and 4-year-old kids into sex trafficking," says the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center.
New reasonable childhood independence laws in these states will make it easier for parents to let children enjoy the holiday.
While intended to keep Native families together, the ICWA subjects American Indian children to a lower level of protection than is enjoyed by non-Native kids.
"[T]he Does cannot wield the constitutional right to parent as a sword to require the district to adopt policies that help them to direct and control their son's choices," and likewise as to the right to free exercise of religion.
In the U.S., we arrest parents who let their 8-year-olds walk half a mile.
Plus: New rules limit asylum applications, the bad math behind economic doomerism, and more...
"I don't know this kid, I don't know his mom, I don't know where he lives," she said in a viral video.
Parents of disabled children say the schools filed false neglect reports against them.
"All I've been able to see for a little while was this trial," says Amy Lovato.
Plus: A listener question considers the pros and cons of the libertarian focus on political processes rather than political results.
A bill advancing the New York State Assembly would require child welfare agents to inform parents of their legal rights when beginning an investigation of child abuse or neglect.
"Parents have told me that once their children learn to swim they have more confidence and self-esteem," says Joseph Brier, a swim instructor.
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