Each year in the United States, more than 600,000 children are victims of child abuse. Nationally, more than one-third (34.2%) of child maltreatment victims are three years old or younger, with ...

Home visitor Mayra Ocampo, left, and parent Isabel Valencia take turns reading a children's book in Valencia's living room during a weekly home visit. PUEBLO, Colorado — Standing in her living room, ...

What does it mean to be "pro-family"? Host Steve Hilton of "The Next Revolution" noted on Sunday evening that one of the most pivotal times to support and assist families in America is "when children ...

PUEBLO, Colo.PUEBLO, Colo. — Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate ...

This essay was adapted from a piece posted on Medium. About nine months ago, Dara told me she was interested in bringing her mother and nephew from Syria to the United States, and she needed ...

A highly lauded and widely adopted program that relies on home visits by paraprofessionals to promote effective parenting in families at risk of child abuse succeeded in building trust, but neither ...

Many popular home-visitation programs for parents of young children may not be as effective as policymakers believe, a review of the research has found. Used in 25 states, the Nurse-Family Partnership ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Dina Archila Cerna found out she was pregnant, she said she had so much fear about having her first child that she hid her ...

Alisha enrolled in home visiting in November 2018, right before the birth of Andre, her fifth child. At the time, her highest level of education was 11th grade. Her home visitor identified a high ...

A paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that Nurse-Family Partnership ® (NFP), a prenatal and early child home visiting program, did not improve birth outcomes for low-income ...