It is easier to build strong children, statesman Frederick Douglass once observed, than to repair broken men. We have a decidedly mixed report card on this front in Orange County, as the county's latest "Annual Report on the Conditions of Children" illustrates in dispassionate -- if somewhat passion-inducing -- facts and figures.

PHOENIX -- Lawmakers have promised change with the state's child welfare system. After three high-profile murders in 2025, ABC15 began our investigation, DCS: State of Failure.