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Foster Care

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Child abuse: Former foster kids, lawmakers, advocates rally to prevent it

    The loudest applause at a rally at the Capitol today for the prevention of child abuse and neglect was for two teenagers who know the child welfare system firsthand. As a child, Latisha was placed in twelve different foster homes. Her brother Adrian lived in twice as many. Today, they urged regular ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Child Protective Services protest rally at State Capitol: Can foster care lead to abuse?

    ​"Kidnapping is illegal by Child Protective Services." "Our constitutional rights are violated." "Foster care more dangerous than family care." Those are some of the slogans you can expect to see during a noon rally at the State Capitol. Govabuse.org organized the rally as part of the site's n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    David Rangel: $100,000 bond for teacher who says he didn't boink student but wanted to

    David Rangel.​David Rangel, the third area teacher busted for alleged improper relations with students in four months, appeared in Weld County District Court yesterday, where bond was set at a whopping $100,000. That's a big number for a guy who told police that while he kissed and groped a t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Katrina scammer to taxpayers: My bad, totally

    We get so many letters from prisoners proclaiming their innocence of any and all misdeeds that it's curiously refreshing when one admits that he did something wrong. Wrong and dumb. So this recent, neatly typed apology from Charles W. Wimberly, resident of a federal prison in Tucson, caught our at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2007

    In for Life: Day Twelve of the Michael Tate Trial

    We get so many letters from prisoners proclaiming their innocence of any and all misdeeds that it's curiously refreshing when one admits that he did something wrong. Wrong and dumb. So this recent, neatly typed apology from Charles W. Wimberly, resident of a federal prison in Tucson, caught our at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    In for Life: Day Eight of the Michael Tate Trial

    We get so many letters from prisoners proclaiming their innocence of any and all misdeeds that it's curiously refreshing when one admits that he did something wrong. Wrong and dumb. So this recent, neatly typed apology from Charles W. Wimberly, resident of a federal prison in Tucson, caught our at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2007

    In for Life: Day Seven of the Michael Tate Trial

    We get so many letters from prisoners proclaiming their innocence of any and all misdeeds that it's curiously refreshing when one admits that he did something wrong. Wrong and dumb. So this recent, neatly typed apology from Charles W. Wimberly, resident of a federal prison in Tucson, caught our at ... More >>

  • News

    October 19, 2006

    All Grown Up

    At eighteen, these foster kids aged out of a system that denied them a childhood.

  • News

    December 1, 2005

    Focus on the Family

    The McAdams want their children back, but can former heroin addicts succeed as parents?

  • News

    February 10, 2005

    Beyond Contempt

    The child-protection system wants to shut down family-rights activist Suzanne Shell. And vice versa.

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    Follow That Story

    Case by Case

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Sex Registration

    Do you know where your children are?

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Motherless Child

    The bonds of love are being broken for Rosa Avina.

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Father Hood

    Nineteen-year-old Albert Galvan wants to raise his baby, but the court says she's better off with her foster parents.

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of December 18, 2003

  • Film

    October 10, 2002

    Foster Pussycat

    White Oleander is blonde but ambitionless.

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    The Accused

    Colorado keeps an extensive list of suspected child abusers, but is anyone checking it twice?

  • News

    September 13, 2001

    Throw Away the Key

    Boulder County slams the door on a group of juvenile homes that won't lock theirs.

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    A Range of Harsh Lessons

    Schoolyard slurs, an incest charge and county social services shatter a black family's Kiowa dream.

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of January 25, 2001

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Home for Dinner

    To speed up its child welfare system, Denver will need to stop kidding around.

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    Follow That Story

    International Relations

  • News

    September 14, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of September 14

  • News

    July 27, 2000

    Suffer the Children

    Three kids with attachment disorder have died in Colorado -- but according to Foster Cline, their parents and therapists are the ones most in need of help.

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Letters

    Three kids with attachment disorder have died in Colorado -- but according to Foster Cline, their parents and therapists are the ones most in need of help.

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Family Values

    When the state's foster-care system doesn't work, there's always the private sector. but sometimes that doesn't work, either.

  • News

    January 29, 1998

    Clarrisa Pinkola Estes

    Her Turn to Howl

  • News

    March 21, 1996

    Letters

    Her Turn to Howl

  • News

    February 14, 1996

    DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL

    Her Turn to Howl

  • News

    February 14, 1996

    HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN

    HOW THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTEMPTS TO "REUNIFY" CHILDREN WITH THEIR PARENTS HURT KIDS AS MUCH AS THEY HELP THEM.

  • News

    February 7, 1996

    ADDICTED TO LOVE

    BORN TO AIDS-INFECTED DRUG USERS, THESE WERE THE BABIES NOBODY WANTED. EXCEPT MEGAN ROSS.

  • News

    November 9, 1994

    SUFFER THE CHILDRENWILL A LANDMARK LAWSUIT SPUR CHANGES IN THE STATE'S FOSTER CARE SYSTEM?

    BORN TO AIDS-INFECTED DRUG USERS, THESE WERE THE BABIES NOBODY WANTED. EXCEPT MEGAN ROSS.

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