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Safe And Sound
Leonie Fough seems like a mother who should have nothing to fear. She lives with her husband and two children in a Harlem brownstone, with plants in their sun-filled windows, encyclopedias in her children’s rooms and a drum set in the basement. When her first child was born, Fough left her job as a medical transcriber to be a full-time mother. Now 9 and 11, her children go to swimming and piano lessons, and Fough volunteers at their schools.

Father Upset With Foster Service Over Near-Drowning Of Son
A south New Jersey toddler is in critical condition after nearly drowning while in foster care. Mikey Rugg, 18 months old, was pulled from the bottom of a backyard pool and now his biological father, Michael Rugg Sr., is blaming the foster-care system, not the foster parents.

More Kids Put into Foster Care
Moving away from a policy of keeping families together, child welfare workers are taking more abused and neglected children away from their homes.

New Jersey Sets Outside Review Of Foster Care
New Jersey agrees to create independent panel to oversee its Division of Youth and Family Services as part of sweeping settlement to lawsuit that accused state of endangering lives of its foster children

Lawmakers to hold hearing in Memphis to air DCS concerns
Tennessee lawmakers who focus on family issues want to know how the Bredesen administration is handling allegations that the state's child protection agency mishandled taxpayer money and children's cases.

Foster parent on bond for assaulting children
A Townsville foster parent was placed on a two-year good behaviour bond when she pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting five children in her care.

Father Sues DHS for Foster Care Sexual Abuse
A Benton County man has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Department of Human Services and several of its employees. James Shook says his children were sexually assaulted by another child while they were in foster care.

State Foster Care System Needs Major Reform
May was National Foster Care Month, but foster families and the children they serve need our support 365 days a year. Nearly 5,000 Florida families have opened their homes and hearts to some of the state's 13,500 children in crisis. While these dedicated and compassionate foster parents do their best, their efforts are hindered by a system that is not equipped to adequately serve the needs of these children.

Student Commentary: 'My life has been both worse and better than many'
It is not what people tell you to do that shapes your life forever, it is what you choose to do despite, and because of, what they tell you. It is also who we choose to let influence us that can make a difference. I never realized that until this moment.