Child Welfare
75% of Foster Care Removals Start as “Neglect,” Not Abuse — and the Data Shows Poverty Is Driving It
“Neglect” is a legal/administrative label that includes harm in very few cases—but it is also broad enough to capture poverty-based conditions (unstable housing, lack of childcare, inadequate food, inability to pay utilities, etc.). That ambiguity is not a minor issue. It’s the reason “neglect” becomes a wide gate into foster care.
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Philadelphia Foster Mother Charged With Murder After Toddler Drowns in Harrogate Foster Home
Philadelphia County | Foster Care Oversight | Child Welfare Investigation PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A Philadelphia foster mother has been charged
Curry County, New Mexico “House of Horrors”: Texico Child Abuse Case Exposes CYFD Failures and the Dark Reality of Foster Care Safety
CURRY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO — In Texico, just outside Clovis, New Mexico State Police executed a search warrant that revealed
Georgia’s Broken Drug Testing in Child Welfare: How False Positives Are Tearing Families Apart
Georgia child welfare cases are increasingly exposing a troubling pattern: parents are losing custody — or being denied reunification —
A West Virginia Father Warned the Court His Children Were Being Abused.
The Court Took His Children Instead. Inside a Jefferson County custody case that exposes deep failures in family court oversight
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Rebecca Crowe and the William Gapac Case: Why Was This Case Kept in Bryan County Despite a Documented Conflict Concern?
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Clearfield County CPS Extortion Scandal: What Crystal R. Miller’s Case Reveals
In October 2024, a shocking case out of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, exposed deep cracks in the child welfare…
Kentucky Foster Children Sleeping in Offices, Hotels, and Parks: The Real Question Is Why They Were Removed in the First Place
As of March 2026, Kentucky’s child welfare system is under extraordinary scrutiny after a major ombudsman examination found…
Philadelphia Foster Mother Charged With Murder After Toddler Drowns in Harrogate Foster Home
Philadelphia County | Foster Care Oversight | Child Welfare Investigation PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A Philadelphia foster mother has…
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Foster Care Agency Billed Medicaid $2.3M for Services Never Rendered
Internal documents obtained by The Record show a Texas nonprofit collected millions from Medicaid while children sat on waitlists for mental health care.
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Inside the Caseworker Shortage: One Worker, 74 Children
Child protective services in three states have caseworker-to-child ratios five times the recommended limit. The children are paying the price.
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Judge Denied 47 Children Safe Homes While Taking Gifts from Foster Agency
A Record investigation reveals Family Court Judge Doreen Harcastle dismissed abuse allegations in 47 cases — while the foster agency involved donated to her election campaign.
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