Children living with a parent with mental illness can face unique challenges. Picture book author Lisl Detlefsen offers ...

It has been a year since anyone saw Jacob Pritchett. The 11-year-old boy, who is autistic and nonverbal, was reported missing in October. But, as far as anyone can tell, he was last seen through his ...

To child welfare advocates, the plights of these families demonstrate the state's failure to protect its most vulnerable children. Parents, judges, prosecutors, and other officials in Indiana say ...

What are the effects of a person’s mental illness on their children? It has been argued that their burdens have often been often overlooked and/or insufficiently responded to. In recent years, however ...

The consequences of an underfunded and overstretched child mental health system can be devastating for Connecticut’s kids and families. The combination of children with serious psychiatric illness ...

It’s not uncommon for parents to wonder how their children will fare after they’re gone. For parents of young adults with severe mental illness, it’s a much larger and more complicated question. Many ...

PITTSBURGH -- A woman charged with drowning her two youngest sons in their bathtub because she wanted to be a better mother to their older brother was found guilty but mentally ill of third-degree ...