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Saturday, March 09, 2013  Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is seeking funding increases in a pair of social welfare programs for children.

Friday, March 08, 2013  Children leaving the foster care system after their 18th birthday would be able to return to state custody.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012  A Missouri House member wants to get older children in the state's foster system thinking about going to college.

Sunday, July 17, 2011  Childhood obesity is a growing problem in the country and now people are questioning whether or not parents should lose custody of their overweight children.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010  The Hyde family added to their family by using the foster care system. Read through the LIVE CHAT about adoption and foster care.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010  Missouri has gone to Kansas to get a new director for its foster care system.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010  Missourians could soon help recruit foster and adoptive families through a checkoff on state income tax forms.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008  Governor Matt Blunt proclaimed November as adoption month in Missouri during a capitol rotunda ceremony to recognize the value of the Heart Gallery photo program to the effort to get hundreds of foster children adopted.