Society has a legitimate interest in keeping sexually explicit material away from minors. But as the courts have repeatedly emphasized, it cannot be done through a sweeping censorship regime....

A New Jersey father’s choice to name his children after Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler has prompted a debate over whether provocative names alone should be considered child abuse....

A judge has barred any contact between a 16-year-old girl who, her lawyers said, was sexually abused in a West Texas polygamist group, and her father, Warren S. Jeffs, who leads that group....

A Texas state court of appeals ruled Thursday that the state had no right to seize more than 400 children from a polygamist ranch in Eldorado....

Most fathers faded into the background or disappeared after the authorities raided a fundamentalist polygamy group in West Texas. Now, a few are breaking that pattern....

Hearings have exposed the clanking machinery of the Texas child welfare apparatus, which has spent millions of dollars to handle an enormous case....

In an unusual meeting, top state officials from Arizona and Utah spoke to a packed audience of fundamentalist polygamists and curious local residents....

Utah’s attorney general said that polygamist homes in his state could take in some of the children seized in a raid....

At least 41 children seized from a polygamist ranch in West Texas in April have had broken bones, and some young boys may have been sexually abused, Texas officials said....

Lawyers representing mothers from a polygamous sect in West Texas requested that each family be permitted to respond to abuse accusations....