Nationally and in Texas, the cost of child care is swallowing up large portions of working parents’ incomes, making it even more difficult for those with lower incomes to remain in the workforce. American families spend between 8.

More than two months in, the West Texas outbreak is believed to have spread to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas, sickening nearly 570 people. The World Health Organization also reported cases related to Texas in Mexico.

Grace Collins, a Texas mom who went viral for welcoming her third child at the age of 51, has shared that she's open to continuing to expand her family in the future.

Further exacerbating the waitlist is a state policy that says families cannot sign up for the subsidy until their child is born so that the agency can confirm eligibility based on household size and citizenship status. Private daycares often let parents get on a waitlist during the pregnancy.

This story is part of When Home is the Danger, a multi-part series on how Texas is leaving children in dangerous homes and families without ongoing support or monitoring. On June 12, 2016, three-month old Leanne Fuentes was found dead after co-sleeping with her mother who later tested positive for cocaine.

During their daughter's treatment in Houston, the parents traveled through the checkpoint carrying a letter from Texas Children's Hospital explaining their daughter's condition; as well as ...

Dr. Eithan Haim said that he felt called to speak up when he witnessed the care for transgender children at Texas Children’s Hospital, where doctors performed irreversible procedures on them and gave them hormone treatments.

A Missouri woman is accused of child abuse in Lincoln County. Brenda Deutsch, of Winfield, is charged with felony counts of neglect, child abuse and child endangerment stemming from initial allegations of a missing child later found in Texas.