When Rachel Marshall was growing up in Virginia, her parents kept a magnet on the refrigerator from a national homeschooling advocacy group, with a phone number to call if local school officials tried ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Murder in the alleged starvation death of a Boone County teenager and human trafficking in Kanawha County -- they’re among more serious charges being used by prosecutors to ...

Every state has mandatory reporting laws that require certain professionals like doctors or teachers to report child abuse and neglect. But in Florida, every adult is a mandated reporter. Florida law ...

Childhood emotional neglect can fracture identity and affect adult relationships. Learn how relational therapy helps repair the self.

Four former residents have sued two Asheville-area treatment centers, alleging forced labor, abuse and strip searches at the ...

DENVER (KOAA) — If not you, then who? The slogan is posted on the CO4Kids website and is part of a statewide initiative to provide awareness about Colorado's child welfare system. The initiative ...

Colorado’s Child Abuse and Neglect hotline always receives fewer calls over summer break, which concerns adults who work in the field of child protection. “This happens every year — during the summer ...

Animal advocates are calling for changes to state laws amid a surge of cruelty and neglect cases. Three dogs were reportedly ...

The mother of a woman who was charged in connection with the abuse of her 6-year-old son with autism in North Miami Beach said that her daughter is a victim of domestic violence. Cynthia Hernandez, 32 ...

Police in cumberland county are investigating an animal abuse case that's caught the attention of thousands .a rescue in dauphin county -- has taken this pup -- ...