We all make mistakes while parenting. We try to be a friend rather than a parent, or we are too strict when comfort is needed. We sometimes scold or hit when exasperation takes over, or we are ...

Note to readers: Whenever I talk about GWK Academy, I emphasize that our first step is to help hopeful parents understand all their family-building options — including foster care and adoption. For ...

This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. The first time Stephen and Paige Sanchez took their boys to Mass, the children had ...

A new rule requiring parents to ‘support, respect, and affirm’ a child’s expressed gender identity is not necessary and has already caused some religious foster parents to leave the system. “You don’t ...

Now, a child that lives with a foster family for a year, that family has first rights to become the permanent family for that child. The federal government is now tracking outcomes for children, which ...