National Foster Care Month should remind us that there are still young souls that need direction and help at the most delicate and impressionable moments of their lives.
Fifty percent of the nation’s more than 400,000 foster kids won’t graduate from high school under the current system and nearly 94 percent of thos...
This is the seventh post of "30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days," a series designed to give a voice to people with widely varying experiences, including...
How many children will go to bed at night with the same confusion I once experienced? How many of these children will grow up and become drug users or criminals and what could we have done to help?
After Lisa and Jorge Alvarez accepted the devastating news that they couldn't conceive, the couple found another way to realize their dream of having ...
MIAMI — Federal lawmakers proposed a bill Thursday that would give social workers better access to school records in an effort to improve educat...
One of the reasons I started my website, Marlothomas.com, is that I wanted a place for women (including me!) to come together and dream. Women should ...
The reality about foster children and medication is far more complicated than it appears in the political theater of a congressional hearing, or in television news shots of sad-looking, adorable kids set to tug-at-your-heartstrings music.
My heart goes out to the more than 400,000 children who have no permanent family to call their own this Thanksgiving. Because of discriminatory state laws, many who want to be parents and also happen to be LGBT cannot open up their homes to these kids.
As our federal lawmakers debate sweeping education reform, I would like to take a moment to highlight the importance of educational continuity for students in foster care, by offering my story as a youth who made it out in one piece.
When Carey Sommer entered foster care in California, he left his mom, his high school and his friends. Bounced from home to home, he changed high scho...
Nearly 70 percent of foster youth want to attend college, yet only 25 percent receive a high school diploma or GED and less than 6 percent receive an Associates or Bachelors degree.
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA -- Eight siblings allegedly taken from a New York child welfare agency by their mother last week ...
Vanessa Diffenbaugh's new novel, The Language of Flowers, echoes the experience of one foster youth who found a measure of joy in a community garden in Western Massachusetts.
MIAMI (Associated Press) -- Deb and Doug Carlsons' adopted sons have trashed bedrooms, stolen credit cards and threatened to kill them. One drew a dis...
The White House has announced action against a very different prescription drug problem. Overmedication of our foster youth is an issue that deserves our attention, too.
As a young adult, I thank God for being in foster care. I know I am a strong woman today because of all that I went through as a child. With a little support, the sky is the limit for your future.
Very few of us are Brad and Angelinas with the ability to donate millions to various causes. But for you and your sweetheart, there are countless smal...
