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Although ranking fifth in education in the country in the 2024 Annie E. Casey Foundation Data Book, Florida ranked 30th in the nation in overall child well-being.
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Dr. Howard Pratt, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, worries about all the kids who aren't getting care.
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One in five Floridians said they lost income and could have problems paying their rent or mortgage, the report found.
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The failure to renew the enhanced Child Tax Credit continues a long tradition in America: Our welfare system has long spent generously on the old, but it has consistently skimped on the young. A new paper investigates why.
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An estimated 160 million children were involved in child labor around the world at the beginning of 2020, according to a new report.
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A bill that would extend low-cost KidCare health insurance to roughly 25,000 children of legal immigrants has gotten further in the Florida Senate than...
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Florida’s new child seat law goes into effect Thursday, Jan. 1.In 2014, the Palm Beach Post called Florida’s old child-seat law “the most lax car seat law…
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On the Florida Roundup, Steven Sotloff, from Pinecrest, is the second American journalist murdered by the Islamic State. Florida Senator Bill Nelson wants…
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At least once a week for about five months, Jalen Brown and other children from South Miami boarded a bus and took the 15-minute drive to Ransom…
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A Guardian ad Litem is the court-appointed voice of a child when government agencies suspect abuse or neglect. But the GAL program is, on the surface,…
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For more than a year, the Miami Herald dug through Department of Children & Families records and police reports to find out how and why nearly 500…
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Join the Miami Herald and WLRN-Miami Herald News for a town hall on how to fix the child welfare system at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 17 at the Doral…