Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area ...

More than 20 children were placed in the custody of a Southern California child-welfare agency following child abuse ...

An investigation into surrogacy fraud is underway after 21 children were taken from a California couple's home, with records showing a surrogacy company at their address.

Kayla Elliott said she thought she was helping a family who couldn't conceive after failed fertility treatments.

The removal of 21 children from a Los Angeles-area couple has put a spotlight on the practice of using surrogates to build a ...

A Times-UC Berkeley investigation explores how L.A. County child welfare workers missed several red flags about the need to remove 4-year-old Noah Cuatro from his parents' home.

Data for the California Child Welfare Indicators Project show that allegations of child abuse that had yet to be investigated in Imperial County jumped from about 1% in 2017 to nearly 10% in 2018.

California’s child welfare system has been scrutinized in recent years as media reports have highlighted the overuse of powerful psychiatric drugs and the dubious arrests of foster children in ...

Child-welfare advocates point out that the report sometimes lists social workers’ decisions without much detail, raising questions about whether DCFS pursued signs of problems aggressively enough.

More than 5,500 complaints of child abuse and neglect made in 2021 to Alameda County DCFS — about half of the total — were “evaluated out,” meaning they were never investigated and ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — More than half of substantiated California child abuse reports in recent years were not in the state’s database, which could result in child abusers being allowed to ...

In 2004, California spent $430,000 to launch the Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare, an online database meant to help social workers find high-quality programs for families in crisis.