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A proud mother found herself under investigation for human trafficking for joking about her three-year-old son on Twitter. “This time last week, I was the subject of a human-trafficking investigation,” Magnolia State Live writer Alex McDaniel wrote in October. “The ...

A mother was reported to a social services agency for neglect because she switched dentists. When Melissa Lopez sought a second opinion about her daughter’s teeth, she found herself reported for “oral neglect.” “For someone to turn around and try ...

A mother was arrested and charged Sunday for letting her 10-year-old son shop alone at a toy store. Jia Fan was charged with child endangerment for leaving her son alone at the Lego Store in the Eastview Mall in Victor, ...

STOCKTON, Calif. — A single mother could be jailed for up to a year because she shared homemade meals through a Facebook food group. Mariza Ruelas of Stockton was charged after a year-long investigation by county inspectors that ended with ...

Natasha Felix cannot volunteer at her children’s school and has trouble finding work as a home health aide because she let her children play outside as she watched them from her window — something millions of parents have done. In ...

It is no longer legal for children to play anywhere outside of their parents’ eyesight in many towns in America. One of those places apparently is Westbrook, Maine, where Nicole Jensen is facing criminal charges that could lead to time ...

Even though the legalization of medicinal marijuana is sweeping the country, parents in some states are losing custody of their children for using the drug. Some parents are even facing felony charges and possible prison sentences for using marijuana in ...

Parents in one Georgia county can be arrested and tossed in jail for a month if their children miss too much school – even if the child is sick. Mother and substitute teacher Julie Giles was arrested because she did ...

I’ve been a naturally minded minimalist for a long time and have always been yearning to live off-the-grid. This is who I am. Sometimes people call me crazy, or a hippie, or tell me I’m a little strange, but I ...

In what some say is another example of the American nanny state, a mother was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor for leaving her child alone in a locked car for five minutes on a 50-degree day. ...