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Three children were found living alone in "absolute squalor" in a Pontiac, Michigan, rental home after their mother abandoned them years ago, authorities said. The 34-year-old mother was arrested ...
The 34-year-old woman from Pontiac, Michigan, deserted her three children, a 15-year-old boy and two daughters ages 12 and 13, for approximately four to five years, "leaving them to live alone in ...
A judge set a $250 million bond Thursday for a Michigan woman who is accused of leaving three children alone for years in a house where conditions were so offensive that police evidence ...
Central Michigan University shooting: Mount Pleasant: 2018-03-02: 2: 19-year-old student James Eric Davis Jr. shot and killed parents when they arrived to take him home for spring break: 2021 Oxford High School shooting: Oxford: 2021-11-30: 4: School shooting perpetrated by sophomore Ethan Crumbley: 2022 Detroit shootings: Detroit: 2022-08-22: 3
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2011), there were 408,425 youth in the United States in foster care in 2010. [2] Foster care is a division of child welfare services that places a child in an interim home when parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to adequately care for the child [3] or when the child has experienced a trauma by the guardians or parents. [2]
In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]
Michigan collects $3.2 million from foster kids It’s also routine. In 2020, 42 states reported using $251 million in benefits to offset child welfare agency costs, according to a child welfare ...
Adult & Children's Services. Hope For A Home [16] program, which includes both Foster Care and Adoption services to help children find a much needed home. Abuse & Neglect [17] service allows anyone who is dealing with abuse or neglect, or suspects someone is dealing with abuse or neglect, to report it. All it takes is a call to the number 855 ...