The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Child Welfare Information Gateway provides a wealth of information on how state laws address such issues as child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption. The gateway’s Laws & Policies page provides summaries of state laws on many topics (). For example, one page summarizes what factors courts in different states use to determine the “best interest of the child” in child custody and other proceedings.
The gateway also has a search page that allows users to search statutes in all or selected states for 35 different topics (http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/state/).
