“You’re an orphan, right? Do you think I’d know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are because I...

The foster care alumni movement asserts that child welfare professionals must meet increasingly higher standards of knowledge the more...

Fifty percent of foster children do not graduate high school and too few go on to learn a vocation or earn an advanced degree. Although...

The psychological stigma associated with being labeled an “orphan,” “foster child,” “ward of the court” or “at-risk youth” can wreak...

Devastating life events such as chronic family dysfunction, abuse and neglect, multiple placements, poor decisions by the court or...

Without due consideration for alumni feedback, politicians, judges, social workers and other policymakers have deemed kinship care a...

Foster Families or Residential Care: Which Placement do Former Fosters Choose? Prior to President Teddy Roosevelt’s 1909 White House...

The foster care system fell apart in the 1980s. There were more foster children than foster families, and too few orphanages remained to...

In response to the Protestant agenda of converting Catholic youths, Catholics began building orphanages exclusively for Catholics....

More than 150 years ago Charles Loring Brace, an evangelical minister and founding director of the New York Children’s Aid Society, began...