Parent Locator Service (Pls) A service of the Office of Child Support Enforcement to find missing parents. Parent Locator Service (PLS) is a service that custodial parents can use to locate missing parents, usually to obtain child support payments, but...

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is headed by the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, which from 2001 to 2007 was Dr. Wade F. Horn. It has...

The nation's mayors and a Bush administration Cabinet member agreed yesterday that the best way to help "at risk" children is to strengthen their families, but differed over how much government investment and intervention is needed. "So many of our problems - drug...

With its monitoring and review system under criticism from Congress and a government watchdog agency, the Administration for Children and Families outlined new steps last week to improve oversight of troubled Head Start programs. Among other policies, ACF will increase training for...

Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex within a few years as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress.Also, those who attended the abstinence classes reported having similar numbers of sexual partners as...

Fewer U.S. high school students are having sex these days, and more are using condoms. The teen birth rate has hit a record low.More young people are finishing high school, too, according to the latest government snapshot on the well-being of American children. It is...