About 100,000 Kentucky children are being raised by people other than their parents – a number that puts Kentucky above all other states. Many of these cases are because of issues stemming the opioid epidemic: incarceration, abuse or neglect; and a great number of grandparents are raising these children. This can put a grandparent in a difficult situation in a state where many people live in poverty and have big health issues.

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke is again pressing Catholic church officials on the issue of abuse.

A new Illinois law will require hospitals to ensure that sexual assault victims receive timely treatment from someone trained to examine them.

Nicole and Calvin Eason adopted six children through "re-homing", a form of private adoption, in which they took in children that other adoptive parents no longer wanted.

29 Illinois kids died from abuse or neglect – after DCFS had investigated claims of problems at home - or involving caretakers of those children.