WV struggles with increase in foster children | News | herald-dispatch.com

CHARLESTON – More than 6,100 children are in the West Virginia foster care system as of October and the number keeps growing, according to the acting Bureau for Children and Families commissioner Linda Watts.Watts spoke Tuesday morning to the Joint Commission of Children and Families and told legislators that number had increased in just a […]

Children Are Dying at Alarming Rates in Foster Care, and Nobody Is Bothering to Investigate

A two-year investigation finds shocking indifference to the fates of neglected children in for-profit group homes. Source: Children Are Dying at Alarming Rates in Foster Care, and Nobody Is Bothering to Investigate