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.

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.

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.

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.

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