When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance — ProPublica

"Why do we allow kids to be separated from their parents who we won't help with housing — only to place them with strangers who we will help with housing?" he asked...

https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-housing-assistance-foster-care

Native American children are under threat — again - The Washington Post

Unraveling tribal sovereignty would not only leave Native children vulnerable, but also could undermine tribal territory. Many in Indigenous communities and their allies worry that, as in the past, settlers may be using Native children to access Indigenous resources, especially oil on tribal lands...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/11/15/brackeen-haaland-indigenous-tribes

Former foster care youth are asking where their Social Security benefits went : NPR

The report, published last year, found that foster care agencies in at least 49 states and Washington, D.C., have been applying for Social Security on behalf of foster youth in their care who are eligible for death, disability or veterans' benefits. The agencies often keep the money, often without notifying the children, their family members or lawyers...

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112705301/decades-after-foster-care-she-learned-she-was-owed-benefits-where-did-the-money-

Lesbian sues federal government after being rejected by foster agency

…Easter is suing the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the Administration for Children and Families and its Office of Refugee Resettlement. She and her legal counsel allege that HHS, "by sanctioning and enabling discrimination and favoring certain religious beliefs," is violating the First and Fifth Amendments. 

"By preventing children under their care and custody from being placed in homes of LGBTQ people based on USCCB's religious beliefs, the Defendants — through USCCB and its subgrantees — not only discriminate against LGBTQ people, but also effectively disregard the non-Catholic identities and beliefs of many of the unaccompanied refugee children for whom they are responsible," the lawsuit states. "This conduct potentially increases those children's alienation and vulnerability, while denying them access to loving homes that could serve them best — all at federal taxpayers' expense."…

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lesbian-sues-federal-government-rejected-foster-agency-rcna3084

Supreme Court Rules For Catholic Group in Philadelphia Foster-Care Dispute : NPR

…But lawyer Neal Katyal, representing the city, countered that "you can't on Monday sign a contract that says we won't discriminate and on Tuesday go ahead and discriminate."…
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/996670391/supreme-court-rules-for-a-catholic-group-in-a-case-involving-gay-rights-foster-c

Supreme Court to tackle religious freedom vs. LGBTQ rights in foster-care case

… "The rule respondents favor would open the prospect of constitutionally required religious exemptions from civic obligations of almost every conceivable kind — ranging from compulsory military service to the payment of taxes … to health and safety regulation such as manslaughter and child neglect," he wrote…
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/supreme-court-tackle-religious-freedom-vs-lgbtq-rights-foster-care-n1269623

Trump administration separates newborns from some migrant mothers in detention - Daily Kos

Pregnant migrants in U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) custody at the Texas border have had their newborns taken from them and put into foster care, Rewire.News investigative reporter Tina Vasquez has found. The newborns, who qualify as U.S. citizens since they were born in the U.S., have been handed over to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/28/1860921/-Trump-administration-separates-newborns-from-some-migrant-mothers-in-detention...

S.C. foster care agency tests public's will to exclude on the basis of faith - Religion News Service

Soon after Sue Barrise moved to South Carolina from New Jersey, she found herself with a new home and the time and energy to foster a child. On TV and on the radio, she heard ads about a foster care agency named Miracle Hill. The 82-year-old organization popped right up on her screen when she did an internet search for foster care agencies. That seemed like the natural place to start her inquiry.
https://religionnews.com/2019/01/30/s-c-foster-care-agency-tests-publics-will-to-exclude-on-the-basis-of-faith/

Trump Administration Grants South Carolina Foster Care Agencies Authority to Discriminate Against Jewish and Muslim Families - The Intercept

The waiver allows Miracle Hill to turn away Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, agnostic, and atheist foster parents. ....
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/23/trump-administration-grants-south-carolina-foster-care-agencies-authority-to-discriminate-against-jewish-muslim-families/

Religious exemption laws exacerbating foster and adoption 'crisis,' report finds

Laws allowing child placement agencies to deny LGBTQ prospective parents are worsening the current “child welfare crisis,” according to a new report....

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/religious-exemption-laws-exacerbating-foster-adoption-crisis-report-finds-n939326

Can a Christian foster care group reject non-Christians? - Vox

South Carolina foster care ministry Miracle Hill has requested the right to discriminate against non-Christian families. ....
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/22/18010014/miracle-hill-south-carolina-christian-foster-group-discriminate-hhs