family separation

Lack of communication can contribute to a sense of isolation and disconnection among siblings, writes Joel Swazo.

After years of stalled progress on improving support for children and youth in foster care, California simply can’t wait any longer to make foster youth a priority.

Having a voice made me feel content and safe for the first time. I realized I was going to be okay, writes Allison Victoria Redd.

My greatest difficulty in the foster care system was that I was always separated from my siblings, writes Laticia Aossey.

After her own experience as a kinship caregiver, Aubrey Edwards-Luce hopes the Children's Bureau can better support kin caregivers and promote racial justice.

Advocates, representatives and former child welfare officials say it's time to change a 1990s-era federal law that incentivized adoptions.

Those in the child welfare system should reflect on our complicity in allowing a system to separate children from their parents without due process.

To examine the Indian Child Welfare Act and its impact, The Imprint reviewed summaries of 40 cases handled last fall by a leading nonprofit law firm in Minnesota, where Native American children are removed from their parents at a rate unseen elsewhere in the country. The review revealed that the federal law has a clear benefit for the children it is designed to protect — and without it, those rights would be greatly diminished.

The influential American Academy of Pediatrics has added to growing pressure on the incoming Biden administration to reverse the practice of separating children from their asylum-seeking parents at the Mexican border set by President Donald Trump, concurring with other prominent groups that the practice amounted to torture under international standards.