Cuts in federal funding known as the sequester threaten to cut an already shrinking budget for youth shelters at a time of increasing need by the estimated 1.7 million homeless youth in America.
"Answer me this -- do you know who your child made friends with on Facebook yesterday?" Tim Woda, co-founder of UknowKids.com, poses this question whenever he discusses Internet safety with concerned parents.
WASHINGTON -- A longtime provider of runaway and homeless youth services for D.C. teens is calling out the District for falling short of its commitmen...
The image of a doe-eyed young blonde girl is splashed across the news. She is the latest victim of abduction or runaway -- but she is just one.
Talking with your kids about what they do online should be as natural as asking about what they did in school and as important as the other really big talk.
When people think about missing children, images of scary white vans and bus stop grabs rush through their heads. But for many children, it is a parent's car, not a scary van that rips them from everything they have ever known.
Studies show that parental involvement is the number one factor in keeping kids safe online. As with any other activity, understanding what our kids do online means being involved and asking questions.
Families with missing loved ones face a lonely and challenging journey. For some, that journey ends quickly with reunification. But for many families, answers come slowly, if they come at all.
The whole point of global connectivity is that information is everywhere. If your children don't want you -- or grandma, their soccer coach or their secret crush -- to read something or see a picture of it, it most certainly doesn't belong on the Internet.
The death of a homeless youth always leads me to look inward and think of what might have been, how strong and energetic that life could have been given the right circumstances.
When my daughter went missing, I needed to act -- I couldn't just sit by the phone and wait. So I turned to Facebook. And Twitter. And LinkedIn. And email. And anything else I could think of. Before my daughter was returned home safely, more than 4,000 people shared my story.
Police in Charleston, S.C., are searching for a teenager who has been missing for three days. Edward Vincent Tankersley, 15, of West Ashley, was la...
A Georgia woman is charged with murder and deprivation after her teenage daughter was found dead of apparent malnourishment on Saturday. Police arr...
When a homeless, but otherwise well-adjusted teenager started bleeding out of her ear in the clinic on "House" (Mon., 8 p.m. EST on Fox), she became t...
Many parents have a difficult time knowing what to do with their defiant teens. Sometimes it might seem like all of your efforts are worthless, and at...
A Skokie teenager who went missing since last month after fleeing from her family has been found early Wednesday. Zaineb S. Chaudary, 16, "was fou...
Law enforcement agencies throughout Illinois are looking for a missing Skokie teen who may have run away from home to avoid an arranged marriage. ...
Rock and Roll was a man's world in 1975. Until the Runaways, that is. Guitarist Joan Jett and drummer Sandy West dreamed the dream, and so did 15-year-old Cherie Currie.
The New York Times: Over the past two years, government officials and experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the s...
With the rise in youth homelessness, it is more important than ever that shelters and resources are available to take in runaways and kids displaced b...
Mohamed Bary says she can practice any faith she wants -- clearly, he is not a fundamentalist. He believes his daughter was brainwashed and kidnapped.
How very dare she? I thought. I couldn't be a better mother than I am, I read child-rearing books. I managed my anger -- not well, but better.
