Naomi Schaefer Riley

When Darren Walker announced that he was stepping down as president of the Ford Foundation this week, he told The New York Times that it was time for him to let someone else take over.

Every year, more than 2,000 children in the U.S. die of maltreatment[1]—and, in most of these cases, the child’s family is known to child welfare or law enforcement before the fatal incidents. Most Americans agree that the main goal of the child welfare system should be to prevent these tragedies—by closing the gaps that lead […]

There is now only a little more than a month before kids leave for college. Maybe it's too late, but parents who really want to prepare their children to leave the nest should end the bathrobe hunt, unsubscribe Dorm Room Mamas and tell their kids to figure it all out on their own.

A recent series of commercials for Airbnb suggest that staying in a house while you're on vacation with your family has a lot of advantages.

When home harms.

“If they'd taken the kids away from her earlier, she probably wouldn't have died.”

Losing the script of family life means that some people who should have children don't — and others don't know what to do with a kid

FacebookTwitterLinkedIn“I think about the families separated in Missouri over the years, not because of abuse or neglect, but because they could not afford to pay a bill or new clothes for their kids.”

AEI Resident Fellow Naomi Schaefer Riley discusses how the ACS coddles troubled parents and puts kids at risk on NY1.

Every week, The Wall Street Journal features an interview with a celebrity about his or her childhood home and, by extension, his or her childhood.