Children’s Rights condemns Oklahoma’s anti-LGBTQ bill SB 1140, which will allow state adoption and foster care agencies to reject LGBTQ couples and individuals on the basis of “religious freedom.”
“Florida’s foster care system is broken. As local attorneys representing young people in DCF’s care, we have a legal and moral obligation to act.”
Get involved with National Foster Care Month—lift up the voices of kids in foster care and the communities that support them.
Stop separating families at the border! Please sign and share our petition to Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Kirstjen M. Nielsen.
Today in the United States there are an estimated half a million children languishing in foster care. I used to be one of those children. This is my story.
This week, Children’s Rights and other advocacy organizations took to the steps of City Hall urging City officials to create an adequate plan remove youth 17 and under from Rikers Island.
Childhood sexual abuse disproportionately affects youth in foster care. In a raw and powerful new essay, Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Diaz details just how far-reaching the effects of this childhood sexual abuse can be.
President Trump’s proposal to solve the opioid crisis by executing drug dealers is reminiscent of the failed War on Drugs, and it’s an absurd solution to a public health crisis that ravages families, children and entire communities across the nation.
Children’s Rights’ staff and their commitment to upholding justice have recently been featured in a number of news outlets, from The Advocate to Youth Today.
Children’s Rights’ work is part of a global movement to end violence against children. That’s why we were honored to author a chapter in the landmark new book Violence Against Children: Making Human Rights Real, edited by renowned scholar and children’s advocate Dr. Gertrud Lenzer.
