Rules for becoming a foster parent are meant to keep kids safe. But many of these rules make it needlessly difficult to find appropriate homes for children whose biological parents are unable to care ...

Angela Cook of Mineral Wells has three children of her own, but she and her husband also take in foster kids — and they keep their backpacks and school work highly organized. (Nathan Hunsinger/Staff ...

The Children’s Minister has vowed to tear up red tape in a drive to create an army of foster carers, after it emerged that even having the “wrong” type of freezer could bar someone from fostering a ...

Each year, over 20 thousand foster youth age out of care at 18 years old. While testifying before Congress, one former foster youth said, “When I graduated high school, the adults I relied on vanished ...