Cristina del Mar Quiles reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund.
Other stories by her include:
Mothers Of Femicide Victims Rescue Their Grandchildren
Children & Families
Grandmothers ignore their own trauma and loss to take care of the children of their murdered daughters.
Maiya Ossipova was a divorced woman in her early forties with three kids when she met her future American husband on a dating website.
This story was published in partnership with Mother Jones and The Fuller Project. Support for this reporting was provided by the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism National Health Journalism Fellowship.
A teenage boy left at a hospital in December 2019 triggered 11Alive’s investigation into child abandonment. His mom says there’s a lot we don’t know about that day.
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While progress to address poor birth outcomes among Black Oklahomans has been slow, women are taking action themselves.
That state’s new drug reform is keeping users out of jail — but getting them help for addictions has been elusive.
The #Keeping series shows how the challenges of raising children with severe emotional and developmental disabilities can lead to abandonment.
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