Diann Sparks hadn’t planned on adopting, until one of her sisters asked her to attend an adoption class in a town 120 miles away from her home in Possum Trot, part of east Texas’ Shelby […]
The rain and flooding following Hurricane Harvey continue to hammer a wide swath of Texas. At the center of the damage is Harris County, home to the Houston metro area and the 6.5 million people […]
Songwriters create album to raise awareness about foster care When he was just a few weeks old, Kyle Hutton was adopted from DePelchin Children’s Home in Houston. Raised in a loving adoptive family, it was […]
J. Cortez III was just 16 years old when he proved to the court he was independent and could be legally emancipated from his mother, though he’d been on his own since he was 12. […]
National Foster Care Month Recognizes the Critical Need to Support and Develop Resource Families BY JANE RACHAL For the more than 400,000 children and youth in foster care, having an adequate pool of qualified resource […]
A story of allegations By Shane Downing Ever since she was a little girl, Grace Meyers knew she wanted a big family. She also knew she wanted to one day adopt a child. Two, to […]
By Salena Burden You are not alone. There are hundreds of families around you, thousands of families across the United States and worldwide that are searching for the same thing you are. They are looking […]
LOS ANGELES – Technology companies and government agencies across the U.S. are leveraging technology in the field of child welfare. Fostering Media Connections (FMC), the nonprofit publisher of Adoption Today, Fostering Families Today and The Chronicle of […]
By Richard Heyl de Ortiz, LCSW We’ve all heard the urban legend horror story about the foster parents who take in children just for the paycheck, or the couple who “warehouse” children just so that […]
By Kim Phagan-Hansel Dr. Mary Wingo has studied the stress impacts on the human brain. She shares with our Fostering Families Today readers how children in foster care are impacted by that stress more severely […]
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