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Massachusetts: federal child-welfare figures and 65 pieces of KARA reporting, in full.
Federal child-welfare figures and KARA's reporting on Massachusetts.
Child maltreatment victims
NCANDS, FFY2024
Entered foster care
AFCARS, FY2022
In foster care on Sept 30
AFCARS, FY2022
Sources: NCANDS Child Maltreatment 2024; AFCARS state tables. Full record — every metric, every year, gaps labeled — on KARA SIGNAL
KARA reporting on Massachusetts
65 articles, newest first, republished in full.
June 19, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Best & Worst States For America's Children
Where does your state rank in protecting children & what can you do to make improvements. These statistics tell the stories of our best and worst states around the nation
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June 12, 2026 · KARA Reporting
The Real Cost of Child Maltreatment, CPS, and Recidivism
Child maltreatment does not end when a CPS case is closed. The same children who enter child protection often show up later in juvenile justice and adult prison, driving recidivism rates of 70–80% and an estimated cost o
June 6, 2026 · KARA Reporting
America’s Child Abuse Emergency: 546,000 Victims, 2,000 Deaths, and a System That Chooses This
Child abuse in the United States is not rare or random. It is the predictable outcome of policy choices. In 2023, about 546,000 children were confirmed victims of abuse or neglect and an estimated 2,000 were killed, rou
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May 13, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Family First & Child Neglect Studies and Reporting
Contrary to a common assumption, neglect is not less damaging than abuse. Research shows neglect victims have lifelong problems because they miss developmental milestones around language, self-control, and bonding with o
May 5, 2026 · KARA Reporting
School Performance, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow & What To Do
• “Since 2020, national and state test data show steep declines in foundational reading and math skills that are not bouncing back on their own. If current trends hold, by 2034 a majority of U.S. students will need remed
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April 18, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Family First & Child Neglect Studies and Reporting 2
Contrary to a common assumption, neglect is not less damaging than abuse. Research shows neglect victims have lifelong problems because they miss developmental milestones around language, self-control, and bonding with o
April 8, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Best and Worst Hospitals For U.S. Children (Beckers Hospital Review)
Which states give kids the best chance at a healthy life? This review ranks all 50 states and D.C. on children’s healthcare, nutrition, and oral health, and the gaps are stark.
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March 24, 2026 · KARA Reporting
From Classrooms to Homeless Shelters: How Our Choices Hurt Children
Compared to other advanced nations America treats children and the people who care for them as an afterthought and then acts surprised when our schools and child‑welfare systems are overwhelmed with troubled children suf
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March 17, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Fosters and the Orphan Tax: How States Take Social Security from Foster Youth ________________________________________
Most foster youth only discover years later that Social Security benefits meant for them were taken by counties to “reimburse” foster care costs, leaving them to age out with no savings, no housing deposit, and no money
February 26, 2026 · KARA Reporting
COVID + ICE RAIDS Impacting America's Schools
COVID school closures and ICE raids have combined to drive U.S. reading, math, history, and civics scores to historic lows. This post outlines national NAEP data, the states with the deepest learning loss, and what these
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January 15, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Deregulation & the Child Abuse Abolition Movement
There is a growing abolition / “dismantle CPS” movement in the U.S., but so far it is more rhetorical and advocacy‑driven than implemented in statute, and no state has fully “deregulated” or abolished CPS. Advocates, sc
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October 22, 2025 · KARA Reporting
The Importance of Foster Youth Rights (find your State here)
This article is derived from Hana Ikramuddin's excellent Imprint News Article about Fosters not being notified of their rights - Read the Imprint article here. Hana tells us the story of AIayna Ghost’s years in Foster Ca
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July 14, 2025 · KARA Reporting
The Assault on Child Protection - Part 2
The combined cuts to child friendly programs will impact some states more than other. This article presents a snapshot of what different states will be experiencing. Send KARA information concerning what's happening in y
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October 15, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Investigations & Reforms
WHEN YOU Share KARA’s reporting with FRIENDS, INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK and most of all, your State Representative (find them here) change will come a little bit faster. When enough of us become informed and speak up for abus
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August 17, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Schools, Child Suicide, Nurses, & COVID
Repeated childhood trauma does cruel things to children. Things that never go away. Those things (behaviors/thoughts/self-harm/suicide) can be managed with help. Without help, depression, pain and sadness often become ov
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May 18, 2024 · KARA Reporting
U.S. Child Welfare Articles May 8 & 9 2024 - (From the Children's Bureau)
Sign up HERE for KARA’S free Friday updates Support KARA Programs Here KARA Maintains this site with the hope that this information will compel you to share it with media contacts, lawmakers and other changemakers. chang
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June 16, 2023 · KARA Reporting
Hospital Mental health services closing across America May 12 – June 16 2023
Social media, political and community outrage and COVID Lockdown stress are overwhelming mental health caregivers and institutions in every community - Child suicide/self-harm are rising dramatically Speak out, Share thi
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September 1, 2022 · KARA Reporting
Recent Child Welfare Articles & Statistics
Recent Child Welfare Articles & Statistics Summer 2022
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October 4, 2021 · KARA Reporting
October Is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Watching your mother being beat up or raped is the same trauma as being beaten or raped to a five or nine year old. Untreated trauma lasts forever and it changes a person forever. The United Nation's-Secretary General An
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September 24, 2020 · KARA Reporting
What Child Abuse Looked Like in America Last Week (a snapshot)
Those of us that know about the traumas abused children suffer need to say more if we are ever to reverse the trend of generational child abuse in America. These articles were compiled over the last week. The COVID pande
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June 10, 2020 · KARA Reporting
The Pandemic Impacting Child Abuse and Foster Care (state by state)
Because schools are closed, after-school activities are canceled and churches aren't having youth groups and community activity with trusted adults outside the home have evaporated - the chances an abused child can find
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January 8, 2020 · KARA Reporting
KARA's Sad Stories, Statistics and Articles State By State & International
Follow KARA's reporting on child abuse & well-being in your state here; stories, statistics and articles about the things most important to at risk children
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December 9, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse & the LGBT Community
Decades of CASA guardian ad Litem work for the County have made clear the screaming need State Ward children have for loving families and the lack we have of them. Especially older State Wards. This article is about LGBT
February 27, 2019 · KARA Reporting
National Workshop On Adult & Juvenile Female Offenders
Last year, 33 states held children and juveniles with mental illness in detention centers without any charges. In 2001, nearly 2/3 of California local law enforcement departments did not have written guidelines governing
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October 24, 2018 · KARA Reporting
September 2018 Child Sex Abuse & Trafficking (I)
KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Human trafficking is rapidly growing crime across Tennessee In Tenne
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August 29, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Catholic Charities of Boston vs. The Vatican (from 2012)
I should know. I was the chairman of the board of directors for Catholic Charities of Boston. I feel compelled to set the record straight and let voters in Maine, who might not remember what actually happened, know the t
August 3, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Infant & Child Death July 2018 (part 2)
KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This reporting is only sampling of what should be reported – the gre
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July 12, 2018 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad Litem News for Summer 2018
Speak for a child in child protection as a CASA guardian ad litem (children need to be heard)
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June 1, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare International April 2018 (6) violence against children
Today, many state ward children are the 4th and 5th generation of abused children raising their own families without parenting skills and with serious drug, alcohol and mental health issues 37% of children overall and 57
May 29, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (5 - foster child)
American states are struggling to find answers for ending adverse childhood experiences (ACES) and saving at risk children by reversing the explosive growth of child abuse and neglect. Today, many state ward children are
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April 21, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse, Death & Trauma March 2019 (IX)
Tuesday morning baby death is Milwaukee's 13th of the year WISN Milwaukee Tuesday morning's death of a five-month-old girl is the 13th baby death so far this year, a medical examiner's office spokesperson said. Emergency
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April 12, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse & Well Being State by State March 2018 (VI)
CA: Social Workers Concerned With Increase in Babies Exposed to Meth Santa Barbara Independent - March 15, 2018 An increasing number of infants exposed to methamphetamine have raised concern among Santa Barbara social wo
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April 9, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Well Being Statistics, Stories & Trauma March 2018 (V)
Woman Arrested In Death Of 11-Month-Old Girl CBS Boston / WBZ QUINCY (CBS) – A 27-year-old Quincy woman is facing charges in the death of a baby. Prosecutors say Shu Feng Hsu assaulted 11-month-old Chloe Chen in February
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December 2, 2017 · KARA Reporting
America's Adoption Issues (300 new stories & articles)
Every state is struggling to find forever homes for traumatized state ward children. Aging out of foster care is painful (Misha's video) Here are 300 recent stories and articles about the fate of America's state ward chi
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October 31, 2017 · KARA Reporting
October Sad Stories 2017 Part I
37% of children overall and 57% of Black children are reported to child protection services in America by the time they turn 18. (American Journal of Public Health 1.17) 12 million children a year are reported to child p
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October 7, 2017 · KARA Reporting
September Sad Stories 2017 Part II
OH: Greene County in need of additional foster families Xenia Daily Gazette - August 31, 2017 Greene County Children's Services has seen a 22 percent increase in new children services cases from 2015 through 2016 in addi
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April 1, 2017 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories March 2017 Part IV (child protection news from around the nation)
Dad jailed in Gentilly infant's death accused of mentioning crack use, accidental fall before arrest The Advocate Under questioning after his infant son's death last week, Jeffery Edward Coleman said that he had used cra
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April 4, 2016 · KARA Reporting
Trauma Informed States (how to make child protection, education & health care work for children)
April 30, 2014By Elizabeth Prewittin ACE Study,Adverse childhood experiences,Legislation,Washington State6 Comments Screen Shot 2014-04-26 at 8.55.19 AMLawmakers around the country are beginning to take action to reduce
November 26, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories November 2015
CA: Six children are dead. Could these needless deaths have been prevented? Los Angeles Times – November 24, 2015 There are community-based services he could have tapped, but they’re fragmented and hard to navigate witho
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October 31, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories October 2015
Find information about child protection, child endangerment & child well-being in your state here. For past months, click here AR: Arkansas's child welfare system discriminates against relatives of neglectful or abusive
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September 25, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for September 2015 – find your state/country here)
Every month KARA publishes articles that go unnoticed outside of the community they occur. These stories are gathered from different sources all around the nation and some international stories. Please share this page wi
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August 19, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for August 2015 - find your state/country here)
CA: County responses unacceptable (Opinion) Ukiah Daily Journal - August 02, 2015 The Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency's response to the Grand Jury is one of the most twisted documents I have ever read.
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July 26, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for July 2015 - find your state/country here)
KARA tracks child abuse and death articles from around the nation (and some international cases). Most non death child abuse cases never make it into the media. This page is KARA's discovery of information through July 2
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May 31, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Protection News Gathered Nationally (find your state here)
ALL ADULTS ARE THE PROTECTORS OF ALL CHILDREN Most of our news for this page (300 + articles) is gathered from; Child Welfare in the News is distributed at no charge by Child Welfare Information Gateway (www.childwelfare
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February 28, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Sad Children Stories From February
The following sad stories have been gathered from around the nation and give an indication of how different states are handling child abuse and child protection. Find your state here;
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June 30, 2014 · KARA Reporting
State Ward Children As Medical Guinea Pigs (or parents withholding medical treatment for religious reasons?)
Justina Pelletier's sad case of medical experimentation on state wards in Massachusetts and the religious freedom to deny children with treatable diseases medical care in so many states, proves the awful truth that child
February 27, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Children In The News - read about your state here (thank you child welfare.gov)
ID: Bill to protect children of faith healers in Idaho will not get a hearing Associated Press - February 26, 2014 House leaders ruled out a hearing on a bill meant to curb the number of children who die because their pa
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February 15, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Drilling For Mass Murder & Arming Teachers Institutionalizes Fear and Insanity In Our Schools (please stop)
All across America, schools are practicing lock downs and pretend mass shootings, arming teachers, bringing firearms and terror into school to traumatize ten year old children and make educators hate and fear their work.
February 14, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Abused and Neglected Children's News (thank you Child Welfare In The News)
MA: Patrick To Address Controversy Surrounding Child Welfare Agency Associated Press - January 27, 2014 The failure of the Department of Children and Families to keep track of a missing 5-year-old boy whose family had be
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January 26, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse In Your State (recent news from across the nation - thank you Child Welfare in the News)
IN: Can parents sue DCS? Yes, divided justices rule Indiana Lawyer - January 01, 2014 A sharply divided Indiana Supreme Court decision that a family may sue the state's child protection agency for negligence is sure to r
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December 3, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Bad Day In The News For Children In Need Of Protection
Z: Senate president rejects request for more CPS funding Your West Valley - December 02, 2013 The president of the state Senate is blasting a request for more money for Child Protective Services, saying the agency may ha
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November 11, 2013 · KARA Reporting
The Science Of Neglect (Harvard University 6 Minute Video)
This scientific approach to child neglect is a strong argument for early childhood programs like crisis nurseries and subsidized daycare. The costs of not providing these things far outweighs the front end investment is
August 29, 2013 · KARA Reporting
CHILD WELFARE NEWS STATE BY STATE (for August)
NBC 4 - August 28, 2013 Records obtained by NBC4 show 63 children died in Los Angeles County as a result of abuse and neglect since January 2012, including some with a lengthy history of allegations leading up to the dea
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August 12, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Massachusetts Child Abuse Up - 30% Fewer Petitions To Remove Children From Abusive Homes
Budget cuts at the Department of Children and Families has compromised family supports and child protection in Massachusetts. "The state is saving money, but not necessarily protecting children" (Marcia Lowry, Children's
June 7, 2013 · KARA Reporting
San Francisco: 1 in 3 Gay School Youth Attempt Suicide & 1 in 2 Transgender Students (Center for Disease Control)
My stepfather was gay and had served in the military in the 1940's. He experienced no kindness and very little acceptance for his sexuality during his time on this planet. As a volunteer CASA guardian ad-Litem, I have co
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March 18, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Zero Kids Waiting
The Zero Kids Waiting eNewsletter reaches parents willing to adopt children that are not reached by general recruitment measures. Please consider donation as much as you are able so that we may reach ZERO - Zero Kids Wai
December 5, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Bastards; How Yesterday’s Rejection Of The Disabilities Treaty Damages America’s Children
Even after a wheelchair delivered heartfelt plea from 89 year old, handicapped, former Senator Bob Dole, our U.S. senate rejected the UN treat to ban discrimination against people with disabilities. The reason given was
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July 17, 2012 · KARA Reporting
The Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary
The National Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary/Research Project August 1, 2012, we will be kicking off from Shreveport, Louisiana and will end after May 25, 2013 Washington D.C. two day Rally and Million Surviv
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April 19, 2012 · KARA Reporting
From Child Welfare In The News
AZ: Money for foster care in Arizona could be cut by more than half ABC15.com April 18, 2012 The Chandler couple doesn’t understand why state lawmakers would even consider a 60 percent cut to Child Protective Services. U
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February 19, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Adoptees Have Answers - Best Org Ever
HA recently launched an online support group open to Minnesota adoptees and fosterees over age 18. Registered members are able to interact with one another 24/7 using the discussion board. Adoptees Julie Hart and Amy Fje
August 17, 2011 · KARA Reporting
Reading & Math Proficiency Or Else…
The U.S. has been sliding for years from a leadership role in education & other quality of life indices to falling off the charts behind almost all other industrialized nations. Today we compare ourselves to the "emergin
August 18, 2010 · KARA Reporting
International Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience at Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology and Center for Children and Families invites you to a multidisciplinary symposium entitled “Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the ‘Environment of Evolut
November 22, 2009 · KARA Reporting
Cut Off A Nose to Spite A Child's Face
But officials from the archdiocese said they feared the law might require them to extend employee benefits to same-sex married couples. As a result, they said, the archdiocese would have to abandon its contracts with the
August 2, 2009 · KARA Reporting
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA)
It is a bigger step to convince people that healthy children become healthy citizens, but it is true. Join the public debate for children (they have no senator, lobby, or voice)
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March 11, 2006 · KARA Reporting
The Christian Spirit
Boston’s Catholic Charities to halt adoptions (Star Tribune 3.11.2006) because of the churches concern with sexuality issues. There are not nearly enough loving adoptive homes for the multitude of waiting children. Becau