When Rachel Marshall was growing up in Virginia, her parents kept a magnet on the refrigerator from a national homeschooling ...

New research from Michigan State University finds that how young adults recall adverse childhood experiences fluctuates based ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Murder in the alleged starvation death of a Boone County teenager and human trafficking in Kanawha County -- they’re among more serious charges being used by prosecutors to ...

Every state has mandatory reporting laws that require certain professionals like doctors or teachers to report child abuse and neglect. But in Florida, every adult is a mandated reporter. Florida law ...

Children who were allegedly abused by former ECSO deputy Christopher Turney wound up back in his care without a judge or ...

DENVER (KOAA) — If not you, then who? The slogan is posted on the CO4Kids website and is part of a statewide initiative to provide awareness about Colorado's child welfare system. The initiative ...

Colorado’s Child Abuse and Neglect hotline always receives fewer calls over summer break, which concerns adults who work in the field of child protection. “This happens every year — during the summer ...

Editor's note: this story contains descriptions of alleged child abuse. ASHEVILLE - Four teenagers who attended two Asheville-area residential treatment centers filed a federal lawsuit Dec. 31, ...

A certified nursing assistant used bedsheets to tie two residents with advanced dementia to chairs — but 383 days passed before the Louisiana Department of Health added the employee to a database that ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The state failed to properly investigate many allegations of abuse, neglect and exploitation of some of Virginia’s most vulnerable, according to a new audit report. On Friday, ...