A national nonprofit has filed a lawsuit against Tennessee's Department of Child Services, claiming the department failed to ...

A lawsuit just filed claims the tennessee department of children's severices is in cirsis and is putting children at risk.The ...

Rather than ethically addressing labor shortages by implementing fair wages, workplace improvements and immigration reform, state leaders are turning to children as expendable sources of cheap labor.

The House granted its final approval to the amended version of Senate Bill 3 Thursday evening. It now goes back to the Senate ...

A Hull woman faces charges of assaulting children at a Scituate preschool, with allegations of physical and verbal abuse captured on surveillance video.

Some lawmakers across the country, including here in Ohio, are trying to roll back the very protections that have shielded ...

“This is the first step towards the use of gene editing therapies to treat a wide variety of rare genetic disorders for which ...

As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine's early 20th century photographs, which helped ...

WAVERLY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A man and woman face felony charges after a welfare check in Waverly led to the discovery of several children and animals living in hazardous conditions, according to ...

The survey by the Social Workers Union (SWU) of 2,295 members working with children, young people and families pointed to unsafe housing conditions such as maintenance issues, mould, damp, insect or ...

More than one-fifth (21%) of social workers have removed a child or children from their family in the past three years where unsafe or inappropriate housing conditions was a key contributing factor.